Delia Falconer

Delia Falconer, born in Sydney in 1966, is an Australian novelist best known for her novel The Service of Clouds. Her works have been nominated for several literary awards.[1]

Delia Falconer
OccupationNovelist
Alma mater
Genre
  • Novel
  • non-fiction
  • essay
Notable awards

Biography

Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in English literature and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne.[2]

She is the author of the novels The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (which was republished in Australian paperback as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories). She also wrote Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, for the Australian Cities series.[3] She published a nonfiction work, Signs and Wonders, in 2021.[4]

Falconer frequently publishes essays and book reviews in newspapers and journals.[5][6][7][8] Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature.[9]

As of 2019 she was a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.[10] She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the Calibre Prize (2015), the Stella Prize (2017), and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017).[10]

Recognition and awards

In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship.[11]

Peter Craven, an Australian critic, mentioned Falconer in The Best Australian Stories (1999), noting her contributions to Australian literature, though the extent of her impact is subject to debate.

Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography.[4][12]

In 2018, she won the Pascall Prize for "The Opposite of Glamour," which was published in the Sydney Review of Books.[13]

Selected works

Fiction
  • The Service of Clouds, Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-36027-2
  • The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, Picador, 2005, ISBN 978-0-330-42179-9

Nonfiction

As editor
  • The Penguin Book of the Road, an anthology of stories of the road (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008)
  • The Best Australian Stories 2008 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008).
  • The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).

References
  1. "Bio". Delia Falconer an award-winning Australian writer. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  2. Falconer, Delia (1995), Vanishing points : mapping the road in postwar American culture, retrieved 6 May 2018
  3. "Reintroducing the City Series in Paperback! :: NewSouth Publishing". Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. Falconer, Delia (29 September 2021). Signs and Wonders. Simon & Schuster AU. ISBN 9781760857820. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. Falconer, Delia (September 2015). "The rag trade". The Monthly.
  6. Falconer, Delia (6 September 2006). "Roadkill". The Monthly.
  7. Falconer, Delia. "Go ape: Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey [review]".
  8. Falconer, Delia (25 October 2013). "Fond vignettes in chapter and verse". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. "Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  10. "Delia Falconer | University of Technology Sydney". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  11. "Recipients Of Our Co-investment Opportunities". Australia Council for the Arts. 18 October 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  12. Metherell, Gia (1 May 2012). "National Biography Award finalists". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  13. "Dr Delia Falconer wins 2018 Walkley-Pascall Award". University of Technology Sydney. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
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