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Shirley Hazzard

Australia (1931 - 2016)

Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931. She worked in Hong Kong, then New Zealand in the High Commissioner's Office. In 1951 she moved to New York where she worked for the United Nations. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy Award and the O. Henry Short Story Award.

Awards: NBA (2003), NBCC (1980) see all

Novels

   The Evening of the Holiday (1966)
   People in Glass Houses (1967)
   The Bay of Noon (1970)
   The Transit of Venus (1980)
   The Great Fire (2003)

Collections

Cliffs of Fall (1963)
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (2020)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Shirley Hazzard

Best for Winter (1979)
A Selection from Twenty-five Years of Winter's Tales
edited by
A D MacLean

Awards

	2003 National Book Award for Fiction : The Great Fire
	1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : The Transit of Venus

Award nominations

	2005 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Great Fire
	2004 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Great Fire
	2004 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Great Fire
	1981 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard recommends

More Than You Know (2000)
Beth Gutcheon
"An exceptional novel - thrilling, taut, austere: this is extraordinary writing of a tense, crystalline beauty."

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