Carrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

and former

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Biography

Tiffany was born in Halifax,

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and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in

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. In her early twenties she worked as a park ranger in Central Australia. She moved to Victoria to work as a forest ranger in the Central Highlands and later began working as a writer, focusing mainly on sustainable

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and the environment. Tiffany became the editor of Victorian Landcare Magazine in 1996. Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a master's degree in Creative Writing at

RMIT University The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

and a doctorate at

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974 with antecedent history since 1887, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia and a founding father of Australian Fede ...

. Tiffany mentors writers through the Australian Writer Mentors program and has taught writing at many institutions including

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

, Writers Victoria and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She teaches the online writing a novel program at Faber Writing Academy. Tiffany's debut novel, ''

Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living ''Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living'' is a 2005 novel by Australian author Carrie Tiffany. It won the 2005 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award and the 2007 Orange Priz ...

'', was a remarkable success on its release in 2005, winning several awards and shortlisted for some major awards, including the

Miles Franklin 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 (law), will of Miles Franklin ...

and the

Orange Prize The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's ...

. Her second novel, ''

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'', was published in 2012 and won the inaugural

Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Bailey ...

. Her third novel, ''Exploded View'', was published in 2019 to critical acclaim. Her Mildura community sound art project regenerating John Shaw Neilson’s 1905 poem, ‘The Loving Tree’ featured on ABC Radio National in 2017. Tiffany was a member of the 2008 bid committee that secured Melbourne as UNESCO’s second City of Literature. In 2023 she served as a Digital Lending Rights Ambassador during the Australian Society of Authors successful campaign to have the Federal Government recognise the income Australian authors lose through loans and other free uses of their e—books in public lending libraries.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

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Notes

References

Guardian First Book Award 2006
Guardian News and Media Limited (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 1 August 2007
(retrieved 1 August 2007)

Booked Out Agency (Retrieved 1 August 2007)

State Library of Victoria (Retrieved 1 August 2007)

External links

''Rules for Scientific Living'' reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar
Orange Prize (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
Carrie Tiffany on The Garret Podcast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tiffany, Carrie 1965 births Living people RMIT University alumni English emigrants to Australia Australian women novelists 21st-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian women writers Australian expatriates in England