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Honey Brown | |
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Occupation | writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 2008– |
Notable works | Red Queen, Dark Horse |
Notable awards | Aurealis Award for best horror novel, Davitt Award |
Honey Brown is an Australian novelist who grew up in Campbell Town, Tasmania.[1] She attended Campbell Town High School and Launceston College before moving to Victoria. In 2009 she was involved in a farming accident which left her partially paralysed and unable to walk. She now lives in Gippsland, Victoria with her husband and two children.[1]
Her first novel, Red Queen, was published by Penguin in 2008 and won the Aurealis Award for best horror novel in 2009. With her subsequent novels she was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2011 for The Good Daughter, and she won the Davitt Award in 2014 for Dark Horse.
Bibliography
Novels
- Red Queen (2008)
- The Good Daughter (2010)
- After the Darkness (2012)
- Dark Horse (2013)
- Through the Cracks (2014)
Awards and nominations
- 2009 winner Aurealis Award for best horror novel – Red Queen
- 2009 highly commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards – FAW Christina Stead Award – Red Queen
- 2009 finalist Australian Shadows Award – Long Fiction – Red Queen
- 2011 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award – The Good Daughter[2]
- 2011 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award – The Good Daughter[3]
- 2013 longlisted Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – After the Darkness
- 2014 winner Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – Dark Horse[4]
- 2015 shortlisted Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – Through the Cracks
References
- ^ a b "The Accidental Author" The Australian, 20 April 2013
- ^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award, The 2011 Longlist". The Trust Company. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2011"[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing" by Stephen A Russell "The New Daily", 4 September 2014