Honey Brown

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Honey Brown
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active2008–present
Notable worksRed Queen, Dark Horse
Notable awardsAurealis Award for best horror novel, Davitt Award

Honey Brown is an Australian novelist.

Early life and education

Honey Brown grew up in Campbell Town, Tasmania.[1]

She attended Campbell Town High School and Launceston College before moving to Victoria.[1]

Career

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.

Personal life

In 2009 she was involved in a farming accident which left her partially paralysed and unable to walk.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Red Queen (2008)
  • The Good Daughter (2010)
  • After the Darkness (2012)
  • Dark Horse (2013)
  • Through the Cracks (2014)
  • Six Degrees: The power of attraction connects us all (2015)

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Accidental Author" The Australian, 20 April 2013 [dead link]
  2. ^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award, The 2011 Longlist". The Trust Company. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2011"[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing" by Stephen A Russell "The New Daily", 4 September 2014