Angela Savage

Angela Savage (born 1966) is an Australian author.

Biography

Savage was born in Melbourne and educated at Siena College, Camberwell.[1] She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1989 with a BA (Combined Honours) in Criminology and the History and Philosophy of Science. She has worked for the Australian Red Cross in Southeast Asia,[2] 1993–1998; for Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia in the South Pacific, 2000–2002; for the Victorian Council of Social Service, 2002–2007; and for the Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres (Melbourne, Victoria), 2009–2014.

Career

Savage won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2004 for Thai Died.[3] Her first novel, based on this manuscript (Behind the Night Bazaar, Text Publishing, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her second novel (The Half-Child, Text Publishing, 2010) was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction.[4] In 2011 she won the Scarlet Stiletto prize for Australian women's short crime fiction, awarded by Sisters in Crime Australia, for 'The Teardrop Tattoos'.[5] Her third novel (The Dying Beach, Text Publishing, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction,[6] and the Sisters in Crime Australia 14th Davitt Awards for Australian Crime Writing by Women (Best Adult Novel).[7] She contributed an essay to the collection, If I Tell You...I'll Have To Kill You: Australia's leading crime writers reveal their secrets (Michael Robotham ed., Allen & Unwin, 2013).

Books
  • Behind the Night Bazaar, Text Publishing, 2006
  • The Half-Child, Text Publishing, 2010
  • The Dying Beach, Text Publishing, 2013
  • Mother of Pearl, Transit Lounge Publishing, 2019

Other

Christos Tsiolkas dedicated his fifth novel, Barracuda (Allen & Unwin, 2013), to Savage.

Notes
  1. "Siena College 2010 Annual Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. "About Angela (author's website)".
  3. Steger, Jason (19 October 2004). "Premier's prize for a tale of cars and us". The Age. p. 7.
  4. "The Ned Kelly Awards - 2011 Shortlist". The Ned Kelly Awards. 17 November 2011. Archived from the original on 17 November 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  5. "Interview with Angela Savage - winner of the 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Awards". Sisters in Crime Australia. 6 December 2011. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  6. "2014 - Ned Kelly Awards - Shortlists". Australian Crime Writers Association. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  7. "Shortlist for 14th Davitt Awards for Australian Women's Crime Writing". Sisters in Crime Australia. 17 August 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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