Background
Carmel Bird was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1940, and educated there.
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She has also written books on the art of writing, and has edited anthologies of essays and stories. She started teaching in 1961, and taught for twenty years. She now lives in Central Victoria.
Bird has taught fiction writing at the Universities of Melbourne, Deakin, Latrobe, Monash, Swinburne and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her first collection of short stories, called Births, Deaths and Marriages, was published in 1983, and her most recent novel (2010) is Child of the Twilight, a novel concerned with medical science and faith.
Her most recent collection of short fiction is My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015), and her most recent non-fiction is Fair Game (2015).
Achievements
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1991 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for The Bluebird Cafe 1991 — shortlisted in Victorian Premier"s Award for The Bluebird Cafe 1996 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for The White Garden 1996 — shortlisted in the NSW Premier"s Award. The Aurealis Award; the Ned Kelly Award for The White Garden 1998 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for Red Shoes 2001 — winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer"s Festival.
Awards
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Aurealis Award; Franklin Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.