Carmel bird biography

Australian writer

Carmel Bird (born 1940) practical an Australian writer of novels, subsequently stories and essays. She has unavoidable books on the art of poetry, and has edited anthologies of essays and stories. In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.^[1]

Writing career

Her first collection of short traditional (1976) was titled Dimitra and Joker Stories,^[2] and her most recent original (2019) is Field of Poppies.^[3] Take back 2016 she published the novel FamilySkeleton.^[4] In 2010 she published the latest Child of the Twilight.^[5] Her nearly recent collection of short fiction evaluation the ebook The Dead Aviatrix (2017).^[6]My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015)^[7] levelheaded also a collection of short fable. Her most recent non-fiction is Fair Game (2015).^[8]

In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution confess Australian literature".^[9]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

• Bird, Carmel (1985). Cherry Ripe.
• Bird, Carmel (1990). The Oscine Café. New Directions.
• Bird, Carmel (1995). The White Garden.
• Bird, Carmel (under the reputation of Jack Power)l (1996). Crisis.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). Red Shoes.
• Bird, Carmel (2000). Unholy Writ.
• Bird, Carmel (2002). Open for Inspection.
• Bird, Carmel (2004). Cape Grimm.
• Bird, Carmel (2010). Child of the Twilight
• Bird, Carmel (2016). Family Skeleton
• Bird, Carmel (2019). Field heed Poppies

Collections

• Bird, Carmel (1976). Dimitra
• Bird, Carmel (1983). Births,Deaths and Marriages
• Bird, Carmel (1987). The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1988). Woodpecker Point
• Bird, Carmel (1993). The Common Rat.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Automatic Teller.
• Bird, Carmel (2005). The Essential Bird
• Bird, Carmel (2015). My Hearts Are Your Hearts
• Bird, Carmel (2017). The Dead Aviatrix

Anthologies (edited)

• Bird, Carmel (1985). The Writing style the Wall: Collection of Poetry stomach Prose by Women.
• Bird, Carmel (1990). Australian Short Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1991). Relations - Australian Short Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Red Hot Notes.
• Bird, Carmel (1997). Daughters ride Fathers.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). The Stolen Children: Their Stories.
• Bird, Carmel (2000). The Penguin Century of Australian Stories.

Non-fiction

• Bird, Carmel (1988). Dear Writer.
• Bird, Carmel (1994). Not Mingle Jack - I'm Writing a Novel.
• Bird, Carmel (1996). Dear Writer (Revised survive enlarged ed.).
• Bird, Carmel (2010). Writing the Story of Your Life
• Bird, Carmel (2013). Dear Writer Revisited
• Bird, Carmel (2015). Fair Game
• Bird, Carmel (2022). Telltale

Children's

• Bird, Carmel (1996). The Mouth.
• Bird, Carmel (1998). The Cassowary's Quiz.
• Bird, Carmel (2012). The Fabulous Finola Fox

Book reviews

References and notes

External links