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Maria Quinn Maria Quinn i(A120102 works by) (birth name: Maria Annette Fogarty)
Born: Established: 21 Apr 1942 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 2010 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Maria Quinn worked as an advertisting copywriter in Sydney before continuing her career in the US, Canada and the UK. After working in London as a Creative Director, she returned to Australia and became a magazine editor and feature writer. Quinn also wrote for television.

In 2007, Quinn won the Todhunter Literary Award for short story; she was also the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship. Quinn's ashes were scattered over the rose garden at Varuna in early July 2010.

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  • For further information, see the author's website: http://www.storyworldonline.com/default.html

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Gene Thieves Pymble : Voyager , 2009 Z1550447 2009 single work novel thriller

'Lonely genetic scientist Piggy Brown is desperate for a child, but he's in a tricky situation: he needs a lawyer to help him. Dancer is used to contracts which push the envelope of the law, and he has his own reasons for wanting to find a way to grant this brilliant man's wish.

'The Conjugal-Contract lawyer visits The Nest, the official centre for surrogates, and inveigles them into recommending someone they have used before, someone who won't ask too many questions about the baby she carries. But choosing a surrogate can be risky, and this one, Angela, comes with baggage: her own child, Molly ... a six-year-old who has already seen too much of her mother's world.

'When a grotesque kidnapping happens, everyone's life is thrown into chaos and Jack Lee, Chief Investigator for UN Ethical Science Council, decides it's time to take charge, for the sake of the future.' (Publisher's blurb)
2010 inaugural winner Norma K. Hemming Award
2010 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
2010 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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