Background
Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales.
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The Natural Way of Things
(“Contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of ...)
“Contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror (The Guardian),” as the stories of Verla and Yolanda seem ripped from the headlines about today's institutionalized misogyny and violence against women. The Natural Way of Things is at once lucid and illusory, a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body. Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anything—except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them. Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for. Winner 2016 Stella Prize 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Fiction An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner Finalist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Voss Literary Prize 2016 Victorian Premier's Award 2016 The Miles Franklin Award
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The Submerged Cathedral
(Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast c...)
Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, THE SUBMERGED CATHEDRAL is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall, of sacrifice and atonement, and of sisterly love and rivalry.
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Pieces of a Girl
(Debut novel which won the 1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an ...)
Debut novel which won the 1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished manuscript. Relatively scarce.
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Charlotte Wood
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University of Technology Sydney.
Career
She is the author of five novels -,,, Animal People (2011), and "The Natural Way of Things" (forthcoming October 2015). She has also written a collection of short personal reflections on cooking, Love & Hunger (2012). She was also editor of the anthology of writing about siblings, Brothers & Sisters (2009).
She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels.
In 2014 she was appointed Chair of Arts Practice, Literature, at the Australia Council for the Arts. This is a three-year appointment.
She currently lives in Sydney. She is working on a Doctor of Philosophy thesis on creativity.
Previous degrees are a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a Bachelor from Charles Sturt University.
Charlotte Wood also writes an occasional blog at. 2013 Christina Stead Prize, shortlisted, "Animal People" First Tuesday Book Club American Broadcasting Company Radio National - Life Matters American Broadcasting Company Radio National - The Book Show Readings Booksellers Website.
Achievements
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2013 Christina Stead Prize, shortlisted, "Animal People" 2013 People"s Choice Award, NSW Premier"s Literary Awards, winner, "Animal People" 2012 Miles Franklin Award, longlisted, Animal People 2012 Kibble Prize, shortlisted, Animal People 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, literary fiction, shortlisted, The Children 2005 Miles Franklin Award, shortlisted, The Submerged Cathedral 2005 Commonwealth Writers" Prize, Asia Pacific region, shortlisted, The Submerged Cathedral 1999 Jim Hamilton Prize, winner, Pieces of a Girl.
Works
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The Submerged Cathedral
(Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast c...)
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The Natural Way of Things
(“Contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of ...)
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Pieces of a Girl
(Debut novel which won the 1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an ...)
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The Submerged Cathedral
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Nationality
Australia
Education
Awards
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People's Choice award; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Franklin Award
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.