Lucy Treloar | |
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Born | Malaysia |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 2003 – Present |
Notable works | Salt Creek (2015) |
Notable awards | Dobbie Literary Award (2016) Barbara Jefferis Award (2020) |
Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist.[1]
Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria.[1] She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the University of Melbourne and a diploma of professional writing and editing from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[2]
In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "The Dog and the Sea".[3]
Her first novel, Salt Creek, won the 2016 Dobbie Literary Award[4] and was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award[5] and the 2016 Walter Scott Prize.[6] Her second novel, Wolfe Island, won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award[7] and was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020.[8]