Two University of Queensland Press authors – Gabrielle Carey and David Malouf – won significant Australian literary prizes last night.
Ms Carey was joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards non-fiction prize for her book Moving Among Strangers, Randolph Stow and My Family.
And Brisbane-born writer and UQ alumnus David Malouf won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award at the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards, for his Earth Hour poetry collection.
Mr Malouf – one of Australia’s best-known contemporary authors – is a multi-award-winning writer with a wide-ranging literary output since the early 1960s.
Ms Carey teaches writing in Sydney and has written novels, biography, autobiography, essays, articles and short stories.
Her first book, Puberty Blues, co-written with Kathy Lette, has been adapted for film and television, and her memoir, Waiting Room, was published in 2009.
Media: Both writers are available for interview. To request a review copy or arrange an interview, contact Meredene Hill, meredeneh@uqp.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7932, +61 (0) 401 575 143.
