John Clanchy

John Clanchy
Born (1943-01-08) 8 January 1943
Melbourne
Occupation Author
Language English
Nationality Australian
Education Critical and Creative Writing
Genre Fictional prose
Notable awards Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (2005)
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Book of the Year (2005)

John Clanchy (born 8 January 1943) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.

Biography

Clanchy was born in Melbourne. He currently lives in Canberra.

Career

Clanchy is the author of several novels and many short stories. He has also co-authored two detective thrillers If God Sleeps and And Hope to Die with Mark Henshaw[1] using the pseudonym JM Calder. Both have also been published in French and German.

His fiction has won major awards in Europe, the US, New Zealand and Australia, including the Queensland Premier’s Award for short fiction and, on two occasions, the ACT Book of the Year.[2]

Clanchy is "widely acknowledged as a master of the short literary form."[3]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Lie of the Land (1985)
  • Homecoming (1998)
  • Breaking Glass (1992)
  • Hard Word (2002)
  • Lessons from the Heart (2003)
  • Sisters (2017, La Muse Books)

As JM Calder

  • If God sleeps
  • And Hope to Die

Short stories

  • Vincenzo’s Garden (Short stories, 2005)
  • His Father's Daughter (short stories, 2008)
  • Six (short stories, 2014, Finlay Lloyd)

Awards

  • 2003 Australian Capital Territory (ACT), The Hard Word, Book of the Year in (2003).
  • 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award, Vincenzo's Garden
  • 2005 Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Vincenzo's Garden, Book of the Year (2005).

References

  1. ↑ "John Clanchy". UQP Authors. UQP. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Home Page of Author's official website".
  3. ↑ Featherstone, Nigel. "Author John Clanchy reveals why he wrote Six". The Sydney Morning Herald.

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  1. ↑ Featherstone, Nigel (14 July 2014). "Author John Clanchy reveals why he wrote Six". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. ↑ Pryor, Sally (19 July 2014). "Author John Clanchy's search for a publisher proved to be short and sweet".
  3. ↑ "Interview". Verity La - online journal.
  4. ↑ "Review of "Six"". Australian Book Review.
  5. ↑ "Review of "Six"". Whispering Gums.
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