Delia Falconer

{{Short description|Australian novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{use Australian English|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Delia Falconer | image = | alt = | caption = | occupation = Novelist | alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Melbourne|University of Sydney}} | genre = {{Cslist|Novel|non-fiction|essay}} | awards = {{Plainlist| * {{Awards|Marten Bequest Scholarship |year=1998|title=Prose}} * {{Awards|Pascall Prize|year=2018|title=The Opposite of Glamour}} }} | birth_place = Sydney, Australia | birth_name = Delia Falconer | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}} | website = {{URL|https://deliafalconer.com.au/}} }} '''Delia Falconer''' (born 1966) is an Australian novelist best known for her novel ''The Service of Clouds''. Her works have been nominated for several literary awards.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=https://deliafalconer.com.au/bio/ |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=Delia Falconer an award-winning Australian writer |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==Biography== Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Falconer, Delia | title=Vanishing points : mapping the road in postwar American culture | publication-date=1995 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21667994 | access-date=6 May 2018 }}</ref>

She is the author of the novels ''The Service of Clouds'' and ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' (which was republished in Australian paperback as ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories''). She also wrote ''Sydney'', a personal history of her hometown, for the ''Australian Cities'' series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsouthpublishing.com/reintroducing-city-series-paperback|title=Reintroducing the City Series in Paperback! :: NewSouth Publishing|access-date=28 June 2021|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410115053/http://www.newsouthpublishing.com/reintroducing-city-series-paperback|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ss>{{cite book | last=Falconer | first=Delia | title=Signs and Wonders | publisher=Simon & Schuster AU | date=29 September 2021 | isbn=9781760857820 | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Signs-and-Wonders/Delia-Falconer/9781760857820 | access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref>

In 2010 she was appointed a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/delia.falconer|title=Delia Falconer {{!}} University of Technology Sydney|website=University of Technology Sydney |access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the Calibre Prize (2015), the Stella Prize (2017), and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017).<ref name=":0" />

==Recognition and awards== In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship.<ref name=acmb2021>{{cite web | title=Recipients Of Our Co-investment Opportunities | website=Australia Council for the Arts | date=18 October 2021 | url=https://australiacouncil.gov.au/about-us/partnerships-and-co-investing-with-us/recipients-of-our-co-investment-opportunities/ | access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref>

Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography.<ref name=ss/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Metherell |first=Gia |date=2012-05-01 |title=National Biography Award finalists |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/national-biography-award-finalists-20120501-1xwas.html |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>

In 2018, she won the Walkley-Pascall Award for "The Opposite of Glamour," which was published in the ''Sydney Review of Books''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-arts-and-social-sciences/news/dr-delia-falconer-wins-2018-walkley-pascall-award|title=Dr Delia Falconer wins 2018 Walkley-Pascall Award |website=University of Technology Sydney |date=19 July 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref>

==Selected works== ===Fiction===

* {{cite book |last=Falconer |first=Delia |author-mask=2 |title=The Service of Clouds |year=1997 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780330360272}} *{{cite book |last=Falconer |first=Delia |author-mask=2 |title=The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers |year=2005 |publication-date=2005 |publisher=Picador Books |isbn=9780330421799}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Falconer |first=Delia |url=http://archive.org/details/lostthoughtsofso0000falc_f8d7 |title=The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers |date=2005 |publisher=Picador |others=Internet Archive |isbn=9780330421799}}</ref>

===Nonfiction=== *{{cite journal |last=Falconer |first=Delia |author-mask=2 |title=The Opposite of Glamour |journal=Sydney Review of Books |date=2017}} *{{cite book |last=Falconer |first=Delia |author-mask=2 | title=Sydney |date=2020|orig-date=First published 2010 | publisher=New South | isbn=9781742237084}} *{{cite book |last=Falconer |first=Delia |author-mask=2 |title=Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss |date=2021 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=9781760857820}}

===As editor=== *''The Penguin Book of the Road'': ''An Anthology of Stories of the Road'' (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008) *''The Best Australian Stories 2008'' (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008). *''The Best Australian Stories 2009'' (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).

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