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Madeleine Watts Madeleine Watts i(7069606 works by)
Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Born in Sydney, Madeleine Watts was based in New York in 2019. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

In 2020, she published her debut novel, The Inland Sea, which followed (in part and in fiction) explorer John Oxley's search for an inland sea in Central Australia.

Sources include Murdoch Books website; Pushkin.

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y separately published work icon The Inland Sea London : Pushkin Press , 2020 18268137 2020 single work novel

'In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
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