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Rosie Scott Rosie Scott i(A868 works by) (a.k.a. Judy Rosemary Scott)
Born: Established: 22 Mar 1948 Johnsonville, Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
; Died: Ceased: 3 May 2017 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1985
Heritage: New Zealander
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BiographyHistory

Rosie Scott was educated in New Zealand, where she completed an MA (Hons) in English at Victoria University and a Diploma in Drama at Auckland. She travelled and worked in England, Europe and the Pacific, working for newspapers, in social work, publishing, stand-up comedy and numerous casual jobs. She worked as a freelance book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as script editor on a number of feature films.

Scott co-founded 'Women for Wik', was elected Chair of the Executive of the Australian Society of Authors in 1998 and also served two terms on the Queensland Literary Board. She was elected to the PEN Sydney Committee in 1999, becoming Vice President from 2002 to 2005. Scott received an Australian Arts Council award for a two-month pilot fellowship to Ledig House, New York in 2003 and also a three-year University of Western Australian scholarship to complete a Doctorate of Creative Arts (2002-2006) for which she wrote the memoir Family Love. She also founded and chaired the Writers in Detention Committee in 2004 with Tom Keneally (q.v.).

In 2015, with Anita Heiss, Scott edited The Intervention : An Anthology which collected responses to the Federal Government's political and social intervention into the lives of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory. It was launched by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Professor Gillian Triggs.

Rosie Scott was awarded the Order of Australia in 2016 in recognition of 'outstanding achievement and service to Australia and humanity'. The citation acknowledges her 'significant service to literature as an author and to human rights and inter-cultural understanding.'

She died, after a lengthy illness, in 2017.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2016 recipient Order of Australia Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For significant service to literature as an author, and to human rights and inter-cultural understanding.
2006 inaugural winner Sydney PEN Award
1996 Varuna Awards and Fellowships Varuna Writers' Retreat Fellowship

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Movie Dreams St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z235136 1995 single work novel

'In a strange and richly compelling story, Rosie Scott reveals the subterranean world of seventeen-year-old Adan Loney. The deceptively simple narrative slides beneath the surface into the primal world of fears and dreams he can't articulate - the force that drives him as he travels up the coast into the surreal landscapes of Australia's far northern tropics, in search of a meaning he only half understands, burdened and inspired by his movie dreams.' (Publication Summary)

1996 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) National Fiction Award
y separately published work icon Feral City Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1992 Z268152 1992 single work novel

'In the near future two sisters open a bookshop in Auckland's decaying inner city. The city is populated by addicts, violent gangs and homeless people.' (Publication Summary)

1993 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
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