Josephine_Wilson_(writer)

Josephine Wilson (writer)

Josephine Wilson (writer)

Australian writer and academic

Josephine Wilson is an Australian writer and academic based in Perth, Western Australia.[1]

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Biography

Wilson was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to live in Australia with her family at the age of six. She has a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland and a PhD from University of Western Australia (UWA).[2]

She writes essays, poetry and fiction.[2]

In September 2017, Wilson won the Miles Franklin Award for her second novel, Extinctions (UWA Publishing, 2016).[2] This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016.[3] It also won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[4]

Wilson lives in Perth and teaches creative writing and literary theory at Murdoch University. She has been a sessional teacher at UWA and Curtin University, lecturing in performance studies, creative writing, and the history of art and design.[5]

Wilson was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs (2019), and an Asialink resident in Shanghai (2018).[6]

Bibliography

Plays

  • The Geography of Haunted Places (1994)[7] in Allen, Richard and Pearlman, Karen Performing the Unnameable, Sydney: Currency Press.
  • Customs (1998)[8]

Novels

References

  1. [1]
    "Austlit — Josephine Wilson". Austlit. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Josephine Wilson". UWA Publishing. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award Goes to West Australian Writer Josephine Wilson" (PDF). UWA Publishing. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Josephine Wilson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Rare West Australian win in Miles Franklin award". ABC News. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  6. [6]
    "Dr. Josephine Wilson PhD. English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia; M. Phil. Creative Arts, University of Queensland.a." Murdoch University. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  7. [7]
    "The Geography of Haunted Places". AusStage. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  8. [8]
    "Customs". AusStage. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
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