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Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry.

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Robyn Cadwallader
OccupationNovelist
Notable awards2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner

Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry.1

In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.2 For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.3

Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008.4 In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.5

Cadwallader resides in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University.5

Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2008), Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete : Archetypal, semiotic, and deconstructionist, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 9780773448407
  • Cadwallader, Robyn; Friendly Street Poets (2010), I Painted Unafraid, Wakefield Press, ISBN 97818625487876
  • Robyn Cadwallader, ed. (October 2015), We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers, Foreword by Tim Winton, ATF Press (published 2015), ISBN 97819215117217
  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2015), The Anchoress, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9780732299217
  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2018), Book of Colours, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 97814607522108

Awards and recognition

References

References

  1. "Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader". Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. "The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. "Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader". Festival Muse. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. Cadwallader, Robyn. "The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete". NLA Trove Books. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  5. Pryor, Sally (14 February 2015). "Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. "I Painted Unafraid by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  7. "We Are Better Than This by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  8. "Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  9. "Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader – Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  10. "Short List 2019". the voss literary prize. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  11. "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  12. ""The 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize Adult Category Longlist"". Historical Novel Society Australasia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
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