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*''The Transit of Venus won the [[1980]] National Book Critics Circle Award.<ref>{{cite web | title=National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | work=Powell's Books website | url=http://www.powells.com/prizes/nbcca_fiction.html | accessdate=2006-05-22}} </ref> |
*''The Transit of Venus'' won the [[1980]] National Book Critics Circle Award.<ref>{{cite web | title=National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | work=Powell's Books website | url=http://www.powells.com/prizes/nbcca_fiction.html | accessdate=2006-05-22}} </ref> |
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*''The Great Fire'' garnered the [[2003]] [[National Book Award]] and the [[2004]] [[Miles Franklin Award]]. The book was also shortlisted for the [[Orange Prize for Fiction]] and "longlisted" for the [[2004]] [[Booker Prize|Man Booker Prize]]. ''[[The Economist]]''named it a 2003 Book of the Year. |
*''The Great Fire'' garnered the [[2003]] [[National Book Award]] and the [[2004]] [[Miles Franklin Award]]. The book was also shortlisted for the [[Orange Prize for Fiction]] and "longlisted" for the [[2004]] [[Booker Prize|Man Booker Prize]]. ''[[The Economist]]'' named it a 2003 Book of the Year. |
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*"A Long Story Short", her [[short story]] published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' on July 26, 1976 won the 1977 [[O. Henry Award]]. |
*"A Long Story Short", her [[short story]] published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' on July 26, 1976 won the 1977 [[O. Henry Award]]. |
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Revision as of 07:00, 22 November 2006
Shirley Hazzard (born January 30, 1931, in Sydney, Australia) is a writer and novelist. Miss Hazzard, who holds both British and American citizenship, lives in New York City and travels frequently to Italy, where she stays at her residence in Capri. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994.
Books
Novels
- The Evening of the Holiday (1966)
- The Bay of Noon (1970)
- The Transit of Venus (1981)
- The Great Fire (2003)
Short story collections
- Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963)
- People in Glass Houses (1967)
Non-Fiction
- Defeat of an Ideal (1973)
- Countenance of Truth (1990)
- Graham on Capri: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000;[1] trade paper reissue, 2001).[2] a memoir including the story of her friendship with writer Graham Greene.
Awards
- The Transit of Venus won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.[3]
- The Great Fire garnered the 2003 National Book Award and the 2004 Miles Franklin Award. The book was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and "longlisted" for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. The Economist named it a 2003 Book of the Year.
- "A Long Story Short", her short story published in The New Yorker on July 26, 1976 won the 1977 O. Henry Award.
References
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (2000). "Books of the Times: Isle Haunted by the Past and A Grumpy Presence". New York Times (February 3).
- ^ Hazzard, Shirley (2001). greene on Capri (Trade paper). New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. p. 160. ISBN 0-374-52777-6.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction". Powell's Books website. Retrieved 2006-05-22.
External links
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