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Delia Falconer is an Australian novelist.

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Delia Falconer
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	University of Melbourne University of Sydney
Genre	Novel non-fiction essay
Notable awards	Marten Bequest Scholarship 1998 Prose Pascall Prize 2018 The Opposite of Glamour

Biography

Falconer is an only child of two graphic designer parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.[1]

She is the author of the novels The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (which was republished in Australian paperback as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories). She also wrote Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, Sydney, in the Australian Cities series.[2] A nonfiction work, Signs and Wonders, was published in 2021.[3]

She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals.[4][5][6][7] Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature.[8]^{[failed verification]}

As of 2019^[update] she was a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney.[9] She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the Calibre Prize (2015), Stella Prize (2017) and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017).[9]

Recognition and awards

In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of Marten Bequest Scholarship.[10]

Falconer was described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in The Best Australian Stories 1999, as "The young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature of this country".^{[citation needed]}

Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography.[3][11]

In 2018 she won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for "The Opposite of Glamour" which was published in the Sydney Review of Books.[12]

Selected works

Fiction

• The Service of Clouds, Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-36027-2
• The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, Picador, 2005, ISBN 978-0-330-42179-9

Nonfiction

• The Opposite of Glamour, Sydney Review of Books, 2017
• Sydney, New South, 2020 [First published 2010], ISBN 9781742237084
• Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss, Scribner, 2021, ISBN 9781760857820

As editor

• The Penguin Book of the Road, an anthology of stories of the road (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008)
• The Best Australian Stories 2008 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008).
• The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).

References

External links

• Official website

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