Mireille Juchau

Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author.

Mireille Juchau
Born1969 (age 53–54)
Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1995-
Notable worksThe World Without Us

Early life and education

Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales. She is of Jewish heritage.[1]

She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1994 for her BA thesis, Tracings: Writing memory and the Holocaust.[2][3] She completed a doctorate in writing and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000, with her thesis Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience.[2][4]

Career

Juchau was the fiction editor of HEAT magazine for some time.[5]

She has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at UTS, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.

Recognition and awards

She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had several writing residencies at Varuna Writers Centre and Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.

Selected works

Novels
  • Machines for Feeling (2001)
  • Burning In (2007)
  • The World Without Us (2015)

Drama
  • White Gifts (2002)

References
  1. "Mireille Juchau". AustLit. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. University of Queensland Press - Mireille Juchau
  3. Juchau, Mireille, Tracings: Writing Memory and the Holocaust, retrieved 3 March 2023
  4. Juchau, Mireille (2000), Machines for feeling : narrating autistic experience, University of Western Sydney, retrieved 3 March 2023
  5. "Australian Society of Authors - Mireille Juchau". Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.


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