Julienne van Loon (born 1970) is an Australian author and academic. In 2004 van Loon won

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for her first book, ''Road Story''. Van Loon lived in

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, where she served as a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at

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from 1997 to 2015. In September 2015 she was appointed Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow at

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. She also served as the director of the

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from 2015 to 2017. Her first non-fiction book ''The Thinking Woman'', was developed from conversations she had with seven feminist thinkers ( Laura Kipnis,

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, Nancy Holmstrom,

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and

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) and covers six themes (love, work, play, fear, wonder and friendship).

Works

Novels

*''Road Story'' (2005, Allen & Unwin) *''Beneath the Bloodwood Tree'' (2008, Allen & Unwin) *''Harmless'' (2013, Fremantle Press)

Non-fiction

*''The Thinking Woman'' (2019, NewSouth Publishing)

References

External links

* 1970 births Living people Writers from Perth, Western Australia University of Wollongong alumni Academic staff of RMIT University {{Australia-writer-stub