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Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic.[1]

Tracy Sorensen
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Notable works	The Lucky Galah

Career

Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and has published five academic papers.[2]

In February 2018 her debut novel The Lucky Galah was published through Pan MacMillan.[3] It has been shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below).

In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.[4]

Personal life

Sorensen grew up in a remote area of Western Australia.[5] She currently lives in Bathurst where she is undertaking a PhD.[6][7]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Lucky Galah (Pan MacMillan, 2018)

Awards

The Lucky Galah

• The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing (2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) — Shortlisted[8]
• The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2018) — Shortlisted[9]
• The Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2019) — Longlisted[10]
• Russell Prize (2019) — Shortlisted[11]
• Miles Franklin Award (2019) — Longlisted[12]

References

External links

• Sorensen's blog The Squawkin Galah

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