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Christine Piper Christine Piper i(A132097 works by)
Born: Established:
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South Korea,
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Korea, East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
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Christine Piper is a freelance writer and editor. Born in South Korea to a Japanese mother and Australian father, she moved to Australia when she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and has lived in New York. (SourceABR 360)

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y separately published work icon After Darkness Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2014 7278081 2014 single work novel

'It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war.

'While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men divided by culture and allegiance.

'As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.' (From the publisher's website.)
2015 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
2015 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2015 shortlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
2014 shortlisted Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
2014 winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) — $20,000 prize
Unearthing the Past 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 32-42)
2014 winner The Calibre Prize Christine Piper dedicated the award 'to the activists who have spent years campaigning and raising awareness about this dark chapter of Japan’s past.’
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