Emma Viskic is an Australian novelist and musician.

Biography

Viskic grew up near the Melbourne suburb of Frankston. Her father is from

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and her mother is Irish-Australian from

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. Viskic won the

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including d ...

for Best First Fiction in 2016 for ''

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'' and the

Davitt Awards The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, ''Force and Fraud'' in 18 ...

for Best Adult Novel, Best Debut Novel and readers' choice, as well as the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel in 2018 for ''And Fire Came Down.'' The Caleb Zelic series has been optioned for television adaptation in the US.

Personal life

She is married with two grown daughters. Viskic trained in classical clarinet at the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM). It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus ...

and the Rotterdam Conservatorium in

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before working as a

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

ian, including performing with

José Carreras Josep Maria Carreras Coll (; born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras (, ), is a Catalan operatic tenor from Spain who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini. Born in Barcelona, ...

and

Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December ...

Bibliography

Caleb Zelic Series

* ''

'' (2015) * ''And Fire Came Down'' (2017) * ''Darkness for Light'' (2019) * ''Those Who Perish'' (2022)

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Viskic, Emma Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Writers from Melbourne 21st-century Australian writers Victorian College of the Arts alumni Australian women novelists Australian people of Croatian descent Australian people of Irish descent Australian crime fiction writers