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Emily Bitto Emily Bitto i(A110320 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Melbourne-based writer Emily Bitto has a Masters degree and a PhD in creative writing, both from the University of Melbourne, where she has also worked as a sessional teacher in the creative-writing program. Her writing has appeared in a number of Australian publications, including Meanjin, Heat, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Literary Review.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 recipient City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants for Camp Road
2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Literature Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups     $19,900 
2016 winner Mildura Writers' Festival Awards Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Strays Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2014 6974116 2014 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 2 units)

'On her first day of school, Lily Struthers meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde artist Evan Trentham. He and his wife are attempting to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work with them at their family home. As Lily’s friendship with Eva grows, she becomes infatuated with this artist colony, longing to truly belong to this makeshift family.

'Looking back on those years later in life, Lily realises that this utopian circle involved the same themes as Evan Trentham’s art: Faustian bargains and terrible recompense; spectacular fortunes and falls from grace. Yet it was not Evan, nor the other artists he gathered around him, but his own daughters, who paid the debt that was owing.

'The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent.'

Source: Publisher's blurb. (Sighted: 30/1/2014)

2016 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2015 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2015 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards Nita May Dobbie Award
2015 winner The Stella Prize
2015 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2013 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
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