Background
He was born in New Zealand in 1955, and spent five years in the New Zealand army before working as a sheep herder, bush cutter, truck driver, construction worker and bartender.
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Coming Rain
( "Moving and brilliant."—Australian Book Review "Daisle...)
"Moving and brilliant."—Australian Book Review "Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty reminiscent of John McGahern."—Weekend Australian "Coming Rain shimmers with dusty red heat. . . . Tune in to the distinctive rhythm of the prose and you'll enjoy the rich, subtle rewards of a really good book."—Listener Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning—whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. It's a hard and uncertain life, but it's the only one he knows. But Lew's a grown man now. And with this latest job, shearing for John Drysdale and his daughter Clara, everything will change. Stephen Daisley writes in lucid, rippling prose of how things work, and why; of the profound satisfaction in hard work done with care, of love and friendship and the damage that both contain. Both brutal and poignant, this is an unforgettable novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Kent Haruf. Stephen Daisley has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas rigs, and driving trucks. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award.
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Stephen Daisley
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He now lives in Perth, Western Australia. Amanda Curtin on Looking Up/Looking Down.
Achievements
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2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier"s Book — Fiction - Traitor 2011 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book - Traitor 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier"s Literary — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - Traitor 2011 winner New South Wales Premier"s Literary — UTS Award for New Writing - Traitor 2011 winner Prime Minister"s Literary — Fiction - Traitor.
Works
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Coming Rain
( "Moving and brilliant."—Australian Book Review "Daisle...)
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Coming Rain
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Born
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New Zealand
Awards
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2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book — Fiction - Traitor 2011 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book - Traitor 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - Traitor 2011 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary — UTS Award for New Writing - Traitor 2011 winner Prime Minister's Literary — Fiction - Traitor2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book — Fiction - Traitor 2011 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book - Traitor 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - Traitor 2011 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary — UTS Award for New Writing - Traitor 2011 winner Prime Minister's Literary — Fiction - Traitor