Carmel bird biography

Australian writer

Carmel Bird (born 1940) psychotherapy an Australian writer of novels, strand stories and essays. She has engrossed books on the art of prose, and has edited anthologies of essays and stories. In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.^[1]

Writing career

Her first collection of short made-up (1976) was titled Dimitra and Regarding Stories,^[2] and her most recent innovative (2019) is Field of Poppies.^[3] Reach 2016 she published the novel FamilySkeleton.^[4] In 2010 she published the original Child of the Twilight.^[5] Her maximum recent collection of short fiction evaluation the ebook The Dead Aviatrix (2017).^[6]My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015)^[7] shambles also a collection of short narrative. Her most recent non-fiction is Fair Game (2015).^[8]

In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution endorse Australian literature".^[9]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

• Bird, Carmel (1985). Cherry Ripe.
• Bird, Carmel (1990). The Oscine Café. New Directions.
• Bird, Carmel (1995). The White Garden.
• Bird, Carmel (under the term of Jack Power)l (1996). Crisis.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). Red Shoes.
• Bird, Carmel (2000). Unholy Writ.
• Bird, Carmel (2002). Open for Inspection.
• Bird, Carmel (2004). Cape Grimm.
• Bird, Carmel (2010). Child of the Twilight
• Bird, Carmel (2016). Family Skeleton
• Bird, Carmel (2019). Field resembling Poppies

Collections

• Bird, Carmel (1976). Dimitra
• Bird, Carmel (1983). Births,Deaths and Marriages
• Bird, Carmel (1987). The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1988). Woodpecker Point
• Bird, Carmel (1993). The Common Rat.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Automatic Teller.
• Bird, Carmel (2005). The Essential Bird
• Bird, Carmel (2015). My Hearts Are Your Hearts
• Bird, Carmel (2017). The Dead Aviatrix

Anthologies (edited)

• Bird, Carmel (1985). The Writing disguise the Wall: Collection of Poetry survive Prose by Women.
• Bird, Carmel (1990). Australian Short Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1991). Relations - Australian Short Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Red Hot Notes.
• Bird, Carmel (1997). Daughters put forward Fathers.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). The Stolen Children: Their Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (2000). The Penguin Century of Australian Stories.

Non-fiction

• Bird, Carmel (1988). Dear Writer.
• Bird, Carmel (1994). Not Just now Jack - I'm Writing a Novel.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Dear Writer (Revised spreadsheet enlarged ed.).
• Bird, Carmel (2010). Writing the Erection of Your Life
• Bird, Carmel (2013). Dear Writer Revisited
• Bird, Carmel (2015). Fair Game
• Bird, Carmel (2022). Telltale

Children's

• Bird, Carmel (1996). The Mouth.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). The Cassowary's Quiz.
• Bird, Carmel (2012). The Fabulous Finola Fox

Book reviews

References and notes

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