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Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist. Her first novel, Salt Creek, won the 2016 Dobbie Literary Award[1] and was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award[2] and the 2016 Walter Scott Prize.[3] Her second novel, Wolfe Island, won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award[4] and was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020.[5]

Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria.[6] She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the University of Melbourne and a diploma of professional writing and editing from RMIT University.[7]

In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "The Dog and the Sea".[8]

Works

Books

• Treloar, Lucy (August 2015), Salt Creek, Picador Australia (published 2015), ISBN 978-1-74353-903-3
• Treloar, Lucy (27 August 2019), Wolfe Island, Pan Macmillan Australia (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-76055-315-9

Essay

• "Writing the Apocalypse", in Meanjin, vol. 79, no. 2, June 2020, pages 26–36

Short stories[9]

• "The Dog and the Sea"
• "In the Park"
• "Wrecking Ball"
• "Natural Selection"

References

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