Favel Parrett

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Favel Parrett (born May 18, 1974 in Victoria , Australia ) is an Australian writer.

Life

Favel Parrett grew up in Hobart on the island of Tasmania for several years . First she wrote short stories for magazines. In 2008 she won a place at the “Hachette Australia / Queensland Writers Center Manuscript Development Program” and received a mentorship in a support program of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) in 2009 .

Her debut novel Past the Shallows was nominated in 2012 for the Miles Franklin Award and the Melbourne Award. Parrett is the winner of the “Newcomer of the Year Australian Book Industry Award” and the “Dobbie Award for Women Writers”. She received an "Antarctic Arts Scholarship" and took part in a mission to Macquarie Island in October 2011 on the Antarctic ship Aurora Australis .

In 2014 her second novel When the Night Comes was published , in which the author included the Antarctic ship Nella Dan , which was actually lost in 1987.

Parrett lives in Melbourne .

Works

  • Past the shallows . New York: Washington Square Press, 2014
    • Beyond the Shallows: Roman . From the English by Antje Rávic Strubel . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2013
  • When the night comes . Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2013
    • The sky above us: Roman . From the English by Kathrin Razum . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I was born on Election Day in Victoria 1974 , Favel Parrett, Interview , at: ANZ LitLovers LitBlog, April 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Sylvia Staude: And yet they are in danger , review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 14, 2015, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Parrett, favel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria , Australia