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Alison Booth is the author of seven novels and has also contributed short stories to international collections including Antipodes and New Writing. Her novels have been published by -Penguin Random House and by RedDoor. Her awards include a Varuna Longlines Fellowship from the Eleanor Dark Foundation, the Highly Commended Award in the 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award, and the Highly Commended Award in the 2020 ACT Notables Award. Alison is an Australia Reads Ambassador, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and recipient of the 2017 ESA Distinguished Fellow Award. Born in Australia, Alison Booth gained a degree in architecture before transferring to economics. She is Professor Emeritus at the ANU, earned a PhD from the London School of Economics, and spent over two decades living and working in the UK before returning to Australia. She wrote her first novel at the age of nine, before other distractions set in. Alison lives in Canberra’s inner north with her economic historian husband, with whom she shares a deep love of history and the Australian landscape. She has two adult daughters who live and work in the Northern Territory, and two beautiful grandchildren. For more information visit: https://www.alisonbooth.net/home
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