Beverley Farmer

Beverley Anne Farmer (also known as B. Christou) (7 February 1941 – 16 April 2018) was an Australian novelist and short story writer.

Personal life

Beverley Farmer was born in Melbourne. She was educated at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and the University of Melbourne where she graduated with a BA in 1960.

She worked in various jobs, mainly teaching and waitressing. She married a Greek migrant, Christos Talihmanidis, in 1965. They were married for thirteen years, three of which were spent in Greece. They returned to Australia for their son to be born in 1972.

Best known for her novels and short stories, Farmer has also written essays, poetry, reviews and criticism. Her writing has been published in several magazines, journals and newspapers, including Overland, Westerly, Meanjin, Island Magazine, and The Bulletin.

Loss featured as a central theme in Farmer's stories. She described it as the 'touchstone' of her work.[1] The 'experience of being foreign' was also a favourite subject.[2]

She died on 16 April 2018, aged 77.[3][4]

Awards and nominations

Selected works

Short story anthologies

  • Snake (1982)
  • Milk (1983)
  • Home Time (1985)
  • Collected Stories (1987)
  • This Water: Five Tales (2017)

Novellas

  • Alone (1980)
  • The Seal Woman (1992)
  • The House in the Light (1995)

Other

  • A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook (1990)
  • The Bone House (2005)

References

  1. ↑ Farmer, Beverley. "Preoccupations". ALS 14 (1990): 390-92 at 390.
  2. ↑ Hergenhan, Laurie. ed. The Australian Short Story. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002 at p. 413.
  3. ↑ Death Notice, The Age. Retrieved 20 April 2018
  4. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald, Obituary, 19 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018
  5. ↑ "Farmer wins 2009 Patrick White Literary Award". Boomerang Books. Retrieved 2009-11-11.

Further reading

  • Jacobs, Lyn. Against The Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. Critical Study in UQP Studies in Australian Literature which includes biographical material, analysis of novels, short stories and poetry
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