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Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel Bodies of Light.

Jennifer Down
Born	1990 (age 31–32)
Alma mater	Melbourne University RMIT
Notable works	Bodies of Light
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award (2022)

Biography

Down was in born 1990.[1] She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying professional writing and editing at RMIT.[2]

Down has worked as a writer, editor, and a translator.[2]

Awards and recognition

Down won the 2014 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for "Aokigahara"[3] and received third prize in The Age Short Story Award for "A Ticket to Switzerland" in 2010.[2]

Down's first novel, Our Magic Hour, was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award.[4] She was chosen as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 2017 for Pulse Points and 2018 for Bodies of Light.[5] She won the Steele Rudd Award for Pulse Points at the Queensland Literary Awards in 2018.[6]

Her 2021 novel, Bodies of Light, won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award[7] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction,[8] the 2022 Stella Prize,[9] the 2022 fiction Age Book of the Year,[10] the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award[11] and the 2022 Voss Literary Prize.[12]

Works

• Down, Jennifer (2016). Our Magic Hour. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company. p. 304. ISBN 978-1925240832.
• —— (2017). Pulse Points: Stories. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company. p. 240. ISBN 978-1925355970.
• —— (2021). Bodies of Light. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company. p. 448. ISBN 978-1925773590.

References

External links

• Official website
• At home with Jennifer Down, The Garret podcast and transcript

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