Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist. Her first novel, ''Salt Creek'', won the 2016
Dobbie 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 ...
and was shortlisted for the 2016
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 of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...
and the 2016
Walter Scott Prize. Her second novel, ''Wolfe Island'', won the 2020
Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for both the
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the
Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020.
Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to
Melbourne,
Victoria. She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the
University of Melbourne and a diploma of professional writing and editing from
RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne
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.
In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "The Dog and the Sea".
Works
Books
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Essay
* "Writing the Apocalypse", in ''Meanjin,'' vol. 79, no. 2, June 2020, pages 26–36
Short stories
* "The Dog and the Sea"
* "In the Park"
* "Wrecking Ball"
* "Natural Selection"
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian women novelists