Gender:
Female
AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2018 second place Society of Women Writers Tasmania — Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize for Yellow Monday
- 2018 recipient May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
- 2018 longlisted The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize For 'Mrs Proust's Madeleine'.
Awards for Works
-
y
Promising Azra
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2016
9508554
2016
single work
novel
young adult
'Azra's dreams of finishing high school in Sydney and going to university are threatened by her uncle's plans to marry her off to an older cousin she has never met - will she have to choose between her family and her happiness?
'Azra is sixteen, smart and knows how to get what she wants. She thinks. When she wins a place in a national science competition, she thinks her biggest problem is getting her parents' permission to go. But she doesn't know they're busy arranging her marriage to an older cousin she's never met. In Pakistan. In just three months' time.
'Azra always thought she'd finish high school with her friends and then go on to study science, but now her dreams of university are suddenly overshadowed. Can she find a way to do what she wants, while keeping her parents happy?
'Or does being a good daughter mean sacrificing her freedom?' (Publication summary)
- 2018 winner SWW Book Awards — Young Adults
- 2017 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Multicultural NSW
Last amended 16 Sep 2020 08:33:57
