Annah Faulkner (1949/1950 – 8 March 2022) was an

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novelist. At the age of five, Faulkner moved with her parents to

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and later lived on Queensland's

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with her husband. She died in March 2022, after leaving a note arguing for more humane death laws permitting access to suicide for older Australians.

Bibliography

Novels

* '' The Beloved'' (2011) * ''Last Day in the Dynamite Factory'' (2015)

Awards

* 2011 winner

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for Best Manuscript of an Emerging Queensland Author * 2013 shortlisted

Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

for ''The Beloved'' * 2013 winner

Nita Kibble Literary Award The Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards—the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer. The Awa ...

for ''The Beloved''

Interviews

* Karen Hardy in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 June 2015, on the publication of the author's second novel * John Purcell on ''Booktopia,'' "Annah Faulkner, author of The Beloved, answers Ten Terrifying Questions"

References

External links

* 20th-century births 2022 deaths 21st-century Australian novelists Australian women novelists 21st-century Australian women writers Year of birth missing {{Australia-writer-stub