Fotini Epanomitis is an 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 ...

. Her

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, ''The Mule's Foal'', won the 1994

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, best first book, South East Asia and South Pacific, and the 1992 Australian Vogel Award.

Early years

Epanomitis's parents migrated from Greece to Perth and she was born in Australia that same year. She graduated from

Curtin University Curtin University (previously Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology) is an Australian public university, public research university based in Bentley, Western Australia, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. ...

with a BA (Hons), and an MA in Literature. She went on to teach literature at various Australian universities.

Works

*''The mule's foal'', Allen & Unwin, 1993, **''Ta votania tēs Mirelas'', Nea Synora, 1995, **''Mulino žrebe'', Translator Nina Kokelj, Goga, 2001, *

References

1969 births 20th-century Australian novelists Australian people of Greek descent Australian women novelists Curtin University alumni Writers from Perth, Western Australia Living people 20th-century Australian women writers {{Australia-writer-stub