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Pat Jacobs Pat Jacobs i(A35640 works by) (a.k.a. Patricia Jacobs)
Born: Established: 1936 Collie, Collie area, Bunbury - Capel - Collie area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

A former librarian, historian and reviewer, Pat Jacobs has studied at the University of Western Australia. She began writing in 1978.

Jacobs has spent time with her husband and three children in the farming area of southern Western Australia, and has also been involved with a family business that operates in the north-west part of the state.

In 1990, Fremantle Arts Centre Press published Mister Neville, Jacobs' biography of A. O. Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, 1915-1940.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Going Inland South Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1998 Z804065 1998 single work novel Tom and Zoe Drewe, like thousands of others, are "going around Australia". Their journey, begun in certainty and on their terms, takes on its own momentum and compulsions, until they are driven as much as driving, and increasingly acted upon by the power and histories of the land whose surface they cross. Compelling, moving, disturbing, this important and timely novel confronts the dark side of the Australian psyche, exploring what it means to be an Australian, and the nature of belonging.
1998 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
2000 nominated International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
y separately published work icon Mister Neville Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1990 Z843770 1990 single work biography
1991 Shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
The Chrysoprase Plain 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , September vol. 32 no. 3 1987; (p. 15-22) No Substitute : Prose, Poems, Images 1990; (p. 32-42) The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories 2011; (p. 47-60)
1987 winner Randolph Stow Award — Prose
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