Heather Rose

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'''Heather Rose''' (born 1964) is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. She is best known for her novels ''A Great Act of Love'' (2025/ 2026),''The Museum of Modern Love'', which won the 2017 Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize, and ''Bruny'' (2019), which won Best General Fiction in the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards. In 2022 Rose published her memoir ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here''. She has also worked in advertising, business, and the arts.

==Early life and education== Heather Rose was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1964.<ref name=srb>{{cite web|url=https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/the-museum-of-modern-love-heather-rose/|title=The Mischievous Artistry of Heather Rose: The Museum of Modern Love| first=Peter |last=Pierce|work=Sydney Review of Books |date=17 February 2017|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> By the age of sixteen she had a weekly column in the ''Hobart Mercury'', and in 1981 won the Tasmanian Short Story Prize. She left school in 1982 and travelled widely through Asia and Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=669 |title=Allen & Unwin – Author Display |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423052552/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=669 |archive-date=23 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Returning to Australia in 1986, Rose became an advertising copywriter in Melbourne, until she returned to Tasmania 10 years later.<ref name=srb/> Her first novel, ''White Heart'', was published in 1999. Apart from writing fiction, Rose has had an extensive career in advertising, business, and the arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/BUSINESS/Environment-a-concern-for-businesswomen/2007/07/25/1185339058618.html |title=Environment a concern for businesswomen – Breaking News – Business – Breaking News |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=2007-07-25 |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref><ref name="themercury.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/lifestyle/tasweekend-awardwinning-author-heather-rose-on-finding-her-muse/news-story/684defa4bde54464bc898667b22df6dd|title=Heather Rose on finding her muse|website=The Mercury|access-date=8 January 2018| url-access= subscription}}</ref><ref name="smh.com.au">{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/whats-in-store-for-2019-20181220-h19bd1.html|title=What to read in 2019|date=24 December 2018}}</ref>

==Writing career== ===Memoir=== Rose's memoir, ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here,'' was published in November 2022.<ref name="Chenery">{{cite news |last=Chenery |first=Susan |date=2022-10-27 |title='Joy is my daily practice': Heather Rose on overcoming tragedy and choosing to live a happy life |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/28/joy-is-my-daily-practice-heather-rose-on-overcoming-tragedy-and-choosing-to-live-a-happy-life |access-date=2023-04-12}}</ref> It has been widely reviewed<ref name="Chenery"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-16 |title=Luminous: Read Our Review of Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose |url=https://www.betterreading.com.au/review/our-review/luminous-and-compelling-read-our-review-of-nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-by-heather-rose/ |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Better Reading |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nott |first=Nanci |date=2022-11-01 |title=Book review: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, Heather Rose |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-heather-rose-2590593/ |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=ArtsHub Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-10 |title=Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose review – one woman's quest for joy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/11/nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-by-heather-rose-review-one-womans-quest-for-joy |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Shortlist |url=https://www.indiebookawards.com.au/2023-shortlist |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Indie Book Awards |language=en}}</ref>

===Novels=== Five of Rose's adult novels have been set in Tasmania – ''A Great Act of Love'', ''Bruny'', ''White Heart'', ''The Butterfly Man'', and ''The River Wife''. ''The Museum of Modern Love'' is set in New York.

Rose's first adult novel, ''White Heart'', was published in 1999 by Transworld. It tells the story of two children growing up in Tasmania. One of them becomes involved in the Native American ritual of sun dancing and the other becomes a Tasmanian tiger hunter. Murray Waldren in ''The Australian'' said: "Spirituality permeates Heather Rose's first novel, ''White Heart'', as much as the past haunts it. This story is a complex of interwoven, sometimes chimeric themes...A-class debut."<ref>Murray Waldren, ''The Australian'', 17 November 1999</ref>

Rose's second novel, ''The Butterfly Man'', was published by UQP in 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1537/Rose,%20Heather |title=UQP – Heather Rose |publisher=Uqp.uq.edu.au |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> It recounts the story of Lord Lucan the British Peer who disappeared from his family home in London after the murder of the family nanny in 1974. It is set in Hobart, Tasmania. ''The Butterfly Man'' won the Davitt Award for Crime Fiction Novel of the Year in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780702236365/butterfly-man|title=The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose|access-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205064435/https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780702236365/butterfly-man|archive-date=5 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sistersincrime.org.au">{{cite web|url=https://www.sistersincrime.org.au/the-davitt-awards/|title=The Davitt Awards – Sisters in Crime Australia|website=www.sistersincrime.org.au|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> was shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards |title=Awards & fellowships | State Library of New South Wales |publisher=Sl.nsw.gov.au |date=2012-04-03 |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2006-11-14 |title=Aussie and NZ authors make IMPAC Award longlist |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2006/11/14/2363/aussie-and-nz-authors-make-impac-award-longlist/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref>

''The River Wife'', Rose's third novel for adults, was published in 2009 by Allen & Unwin and described as "a beautiful, modern fable about the price we pay for love – a magical and original novel".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741757422 |title=The River Wife |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> It is set in the central highlands of Tasmania and has received significant acclaim from reviewers and readers where it has been hailed for the beauty of its storytelling.<ref>{{cite web|author=Heather Rose |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672393-the-river-wife |title=The River Wife by Heather Rose – Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists |publisher=Goodreads.com |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> An abridged version of ''The River Wife'' was broadcast on Radio National in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-03-15 |title=The River Wife: Ep 1 of 15 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bookreading/the-river-wife-ep-1-of-15/3116120 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=ABC Radio National |language=en-AU}}</ref>

Rose has said of her first three novels: "I am passionately Tasmanian and my family has lived here many generations. I think of this book (''The River Wife'') as the third in a trilogy of books that dives into the Tasmanian landscape. The first—''White Heart''—is a sweeping view of the island told through the lens of childhood. The second—''The Butterfly Man''��dives closer into the seasons and landscape of Mt Wellington, the mountain that is the backdrop to Hobart. And ''The River Wife'' dives even more deeply into the central highlands, the very heart of Tasmania, and finds there a story, a myth, a fable that is uniquely Tasmanian. Perhaps it is no surprise that is it also a love story."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=666 |title=Allen & Unwin – Heather Rose |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423142416/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=666 |archive-date=23 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rose's fourth adult novel, ''The Museum of Modern Love'' (2016), is set in New York and inspired by the performance artist Marina Abramović.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.artaustralia.com/article.asp?issue_id=212&article_id=397 |title=Art & Australia magazine | Vol 49 No 3 Autumn 2012: Sitting with Marina, Heather Rose |publisher=Artaustralia.com |date=2010-04-15 |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> It was published by Allen & Unwin in Australia in August 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://naher.com.au/heather-rose/|title=The Naher Agency – » Heather Rose|website=naher.com.au|access-date=8 January 2018|archive-date=12 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112132116/https://naher.com.au/heather-rose/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The novel won the 2017 Stella Prize,<ref name="stella">{{cite news|last1=Convery|first1=Stephanie|title=Stella prize 2017: Heather Rose's The Museum of Modern Love wins award|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/18/stella-prize-2017-heather-roses-the-museum-of-modern-love-wins-award|work=The Guardian|date=18 April 2017}}</ref> the 2017 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Linda |date=22 May 2017 |title=Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife takes out Book of the Year |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/sydney-arts/leah-purcells-a-drovers-wife-takes-out-book-of-the-year-20170516-gw5xgo.html |access-date=23 May 2017}}</ref> and the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize and the People's Choice Award in the Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes.<ref name="2017Winners">{{cite news|last1=Hodgman|first1=Will|title=Winners of the 2017 Premier's Literary Prizes|url=http://www.premier.tas.gov.au/releases/winners_of_the_2017_premiers_literary_prizes|access-date=1 January 2018|publisher=Department of Premier and Cabinet|date=27 November 2017|archive-date=2 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102191438/http://www.premier.tas.gov.au/releases/winners_of_the_2017_premiers_literary_prizes|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal<ref name="booksandpublishing.com.au">{{cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/04/05/88822/als-gold-medal-2017-shortlist-announced/|title=ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced – Books+Publishing|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> and the Queensland Premier's Prizes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-09-05 |title=Queensland Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/09/05/95336/queensland-literary-awards-2017-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref> It was also long listed for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/|title=International Dublin Literary Award| website=Dublin Literary Award|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> ''The Museum of Modern Love'' was launched in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and has been translated into numerous languages.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://heatherrose.com.au/the-new-york-times-profiles-heather-rose/ | title=The New York Times profiles Heather Rose | date=7 January 2019 }}</ref>

''Bruny'' (2019) has been described as "more a hand grenade than a book".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://heatherrose.com.au/more-a-hand-grenade-than-a-book/ | title='More a hand grenade than a book' | date=8 November 2019 }}</ref> A political satire, thriller, family saga and love story, ''Bruny'' is a prescient look at the new world order and the relationship between China and Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/writer-heather-rose-on-a-bridge-too-far-20190916-p52rs2.html|title = Writer Heather Rose on a bridge too far|date = 27 September 2019}}</ref> ''Bruny'' won the General Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://abiawards.com.au/year-won/2020/ | title=2020 Archives }}</ref> and was shortlisted for the Independent Bookseller Awards for Fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/chaos-in-a-local-microcosm-20191009-p52z4r.html|title=Chaos in a local microcosm|date=18 October 2019}}</ref>

Rose's novel ''A Great Act of Love'' (2025) draws on the author's ancestry.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> The book received positive reviews, with critics praising its historical detail and character development.<ref name=":3" /><ref name="nytimes.com" /> It is scheduled for publication in the UK and the United States in January 2026.<ref name=":4" />

===Children's novels=== In 2013 Rose published her first children's novel ''Finding Serendipity'' co-authored with fellow award-winning writer Danielle Wood under the pen name Angelica Banks and published in Australia by Allen & Unwin.<ref name=":1">{{cite web | url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/childrens/childrens-fiction/Finding-Serendipity-Angelica-Banks-9781743310311 | title=Allen & Unwin - Australia }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/910-finding-serendipity-competition.html |title=Finding Serendipity - Competition - Competitions - Reading Matters - My Book Corner |access-date=13 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224726/http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/910-finding-serendipity-competition.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It has also been published in Germany by Magellan<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/Angelica-Banks/Tuesday-und-der-Zauber-des-Anfangs-1099516884|title=Angelica Banks|website=LovelyBooks|date=17 February 2017 |access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> and in the United States with Henry Holt (Macmillan).<ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/books/review/the-island-of-dr-libris-and-finding-serendipity.html?_r=0 | title='The Island of Dr. Libris' and 'Finding Serendipity' | newspaper=The New York Times | date=10 April 2015 | last1=Anderson | first1=M. T. }}</ref>

The second book in the Tuesday McGillycuddy series, ''A Week Without Tuesday'', was published in Australian in 2015,<ref name=":4">{{cite web | url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781760110376 | title=Allen & Unwin - Australia }}</ref> in Germany in 2015 and in the United States in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/angelica-banks/a-week-without-tuesday | title=A WEEK WITHOUT TUESDAY | Kirkus Reviews }}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2015 Aurealis Awards for Best Children's Fantasy Novel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Aurealis Awards, Previous years' results |url=https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/aurealis-1995-2017-compiled-lists.pdf |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Aurealis Awards}}</ref>

The third book in the series, ''Blueberry Pancakes Forever'', was published in Australia and Germany in 2016,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/childrens/childrens-fiction/Blueberry-Pancakes-Forever-Angelica-Banks-9781760110451 | title=Allen & Unwin - Australia }}</ref> and in the United States in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blueberry Pancakes Forever: Review |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/angelica-banks/blueberry-pancakes-forever/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Kirkus Media LLC}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2016 Aurealis Awards for Best Children's Fantasy Novel.<ref name=":0" />

===Other writing=== Rose has also been published in several collections, including ''Some Girls Do'' edited by Jacinta Tynan (2007), ''Mosaic'' (2008) edited by Rosalind Bradley, and ''Dirty Words: A Literary Dictionary of Sex Terms'' (2008) edited by Ellen Sussman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://naher.com.au/authors/bio/heather-rose |title=Authors · The Naher Agency |publisher=Naher.com.au |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528194053/http://naher.com.au/authors/bio/heather-rose/ |archive-date=28 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rose has also had fiction and non-fiction, including reviews, published in ''Island'' magazine,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islandmag.com/im/index.php?c=4 |title=Island Magazine: writers |publisher=Islandmag.com |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709143930/http://www.islandmag.com/im/index.php?c=4 |archive-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Art & Australia'',<ref name="auto"/> ''Art Monthly''<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://artmonthly.org.au/article.asp?contentID=1590|issue=273|title=Under our skin Issue 273|date=September 2014|journal=Art Monthly|access-date=31 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903143245/http://artmonthly.org.au/article.asp?contentID=1590|archive-date=3 September 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''Meanjin''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meanjin.com.au/autumn-2016/|title=Autumn 2016|date=15 March 2016|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref>

==Adaptations== ''The Museum of Modern Love'' has been optioned for film by multi-award-winning production team GoodThing Productions.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://goodthingproductions.com.au/projects/the-museum-of-modern-love/ | title=Good Thing Productions | the Museum of Modern Love }}</ref> In January 2022, the world premiere of a play adapted from ''The Museum of Modern Love'' by Tom Holloway was staged at the Sydney Festival.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Museum of Modern Love – Sydney Festival 2022 | website=Seymour Centre | date=30 January 2022 | url=https://www.seymourcentre.com/archived/the-museum-of-modern-love/ | access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref>

==Business and the arts== In 1999, Rose co-founded an advertising agency, Coo'ee Tasmania, a member of the international Coo'ee Network across Europe, Australasia and the United States, with Rose as managing director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rosshumandirections.com/documents/BRW_0606C.pdf |title=She Inc.: Australia's best female entrepreneurs |access-date=13 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325082808/http://www.rosshumandirections.com///documents/BRW_0606C.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2012 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> Growth of Coo'ee and the success of its campaigns led to Rose being named Telstra Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telstrabusinesswomensawards.com/award-winners/past-winners/2004/tas-86.aspx |title=TAS – Telstra Business Women's Awards |publisher=Telstrabusinesswomensawards.com |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090612211634/http://www.telstrabusinesswomensawards.com/award-winners/past-winners/2004/tas-86.aspx |archive-date=12 June 2009 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> Rose was chair of the Coo'ee Network of agencies across Australasia from 2005 to 2007.<ref name=Jana>{{cite web|last=Jana |first=Reena |url=http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2007/09/greenwashing_be.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102075752/http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2007/09/greenwashing_be.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2007 |title=Greenwashing, Be Gone! A tool to help companies assess their eco-friendliness |publisher=BusinessWeek |date=2007-09-04 |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref>

In 2007 Coo'ee Tasmania left the Coo'ee Network and partnered with Green Team Global in New York.<ref name=Jana/> Green Team Australia became Australia's first "green" advertising agency specialising in community engagement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://greenteamglobal.com/us/team/heather-rose-2/ |title=Heather Rose |publisher=Greenteamglobal.com |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718031433/http://greenteamglobal.com/us/team/heather-rose-2/ |archive-date=18 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Green Team Australia has won over 25 international creative awards.

In 2008 Rose was appointed chair of the Festival of Voices, a Hobart-based arts festival celebrating song, music and the voice. Over the following three years she built the festival into one of the state's leading annual festivals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.festivalofvoices.com/ |title=Home - Festival of Voices |access-date=23 April 2022 |archive-date=4 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104052236/https://festivalofvoices.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The festival and Green Team Australia received both the Tasmanian and the national 2010 Australian Business Arts Foundation (ABAF) Award for SMEs, through a partnership created by Rose.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abaf.org.au/arts/abaf-awards/past-abaf-award-winners.html |title=Past AbaF Award winners |publisher=Abaf.org.au |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019172350/http://www.abaf.org.au/arts/abaf-awards/past-abaf-award-winners.html |archive-date=19 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rose has been an inaugural mentor in the Tasmanian Leaders Program, which trains business people in leadership excellence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tasmanianleaders.org.au/our-people/leadership-champions|title=The Tasmanian Leaders Inc – Leadership Champions|website=www.tasmanianleaders.org.au|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> Rose was a founding board member of the Macquarie Point Development Corporation from 2012 to 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://macquariepoint.com/about/the-board|title=Corporation Board – Macquarie Point Development Corporation|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/04/09/376477_tasmania-news.html|title = Search the Mercury| url-access= subscription}}</ref>

Rose was a trustee of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 2020 to 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/about_us/board_and_executive|title = Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | Board and Executive}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==

===Books===  * 2025 – Shortlisted for Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction, Tasmanian Literary Awards, for ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shortlists – Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 |url=https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/563033/Tasmanian-Literary-Awards_A3-Shortlist-Poster.pdf |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Arts Tasmania}}</ref> * 2023 – Shortlisted for ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here'' for the Nonfiction prize, 2023 Indie Book Awards.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=18 January 2023 |title=Indie Book Awards 2023 shortlist announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/01/18/225311/indie-book-awards-2023-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref> * 2020 – Winner, General fiction book of the year, for ''Bruny'', Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA)<ref>[https://abiawards.com.au/abias-2020-longlist/ Australian Book Industry Awards]</ref> * 2020 – Shortlisted for ''Bruny'' for the Davitt Award for best adult crime novel by Australian woman<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-17|title=Davitt Awards 2020 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/07/17/153836/davitt-awards-2020-shortlists-announced/|access-date=2020-07-19|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref> * 2020 – Shortlisted for ''Bruny'' Booksellers Choice Awards<ref>[https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/06/05/151600/booksellers-choice-2020-book-of-the-year-awards-shortlists-announced/ Booksellers Choice Awards]</ref> * 2020 – Shortlisted for the ''Bruny'' Indie Book Awards<ref>[https://www.indiebookawards.com.au/ Indie Book Awards – Best Fiction]</ref> * 2020 – Longlisted for ''Bruny'' NIB Literary Awards<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/recreation/arts_and_culture/nib | title=Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award - Waverley Council }}</ref>* * 2018 – Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award for ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2017 – Winner Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes - Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian author<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/industry_development/premiers_literary_prizes |title=Premier's Literary Prizes | Arts Tasmania |publisher=Arts.tas.gov.au |date=2017-11-27 |access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref> for ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2017 – Shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/about/shortlists#fiction |title=2017 shortlists (Queensland Literary Awards) |publisher=Qldliteraryawards.org.au |access-date=2018-01-08 |archive-date=3 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603113748/http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/about/shortlists#fiction |url-status=dead }}</ref> for ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2017 – Shortlisted for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal<ref name="booksandpublishing.com.au"/> ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2017 – Winner the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction for ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2017 – Winner the Stella Prize for ''The Museum of Modern Love'' * 2016 – Shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards for ''Blueberry Pancakes Forever''<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/aurealis-1995-2017-compiled-lists.pdf| title=Aurealis awards, previous years' results, best science fiction novel}}</ref> * 2015 – Shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards for ''A Week Without Tuesday''<ref name="ReferenceA"/> * 2007 – Recipient of the Eleanor Dark Fellowship at Varuna, The Writers' House, to work on the then unpublished ''The River Wife''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.varuna.com.au |title=Varuna The Writers' House |publisher=Varuna.com.au |date=2012-03-20 |access-date=2012-04-23}}</ref> * 2007 – Longlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award for ''The Butterfly Man'' * 2006 – Shortlisted for Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for ''The Butterfly Man''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perpetual.com.au/kibble|title=Kibble | Perpetual|access-date=14 April 2019|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414102548/https://www.perpetual.com.au/kibble|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2006 – Winner, Davitt Award for Crime Novel of the year for ''The Butterfly Man''<ref name="sistersincrime.org.au"/>

===Other awards=== * 2004 – Winner the Telstra Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telstrabusinesswomensawards.com/brilliant-business-women/past-winners/?y=2004|title=Past winners – Telstra Business Women's Awards|access-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813043855/https://www.telstrabusinesswomensawards.com/brilliant-business-women/past-winners/?y=2004|archive-date=13 August 2016|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="themercury.com.au"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adnews.com.au/7CC18D14-E8B3-453F-986D7754DA9E2D8F|title=Coo'ee chief wins business award – AdNews|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/books/strange-visitations/2005/11/17/1132016915783.html?oneclick=true|title=Strange visitations – Books – Entertainment – smh.com.au|website=www.smh.com.au|access-date=8 January 2018|date=19 November 2005}}</ref> * 2010 – Winner the national Australian Business Arts Foundation SME Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abaf.org.au/index.php?pageID=9819&merchant_id=0|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110218034423/http://www.abaf.org.au/index.php?pageID=9819&merchant_id=0|url-status=dead|title=AbaF – Tasmania|date=18 February 2011|archive-date=18 February 2011|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> * 2011 – Winner the national Australian Business Arts Foundation Woodside Better Business Award, for her extensive philanthropic contribution to Festival of Voices<ref>{{cite web|url=https://art.base.co/news_story/569-winners-announced-for-abaf-awards-2011|title=Winners announced for AbaF Awards 2011 on The Art.Base|website=Art.Base|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2011/10/abaf-awards-recognise-best-businessarts-partnerships/ |title=Abaf Awards Recognise Best Business/Arts Partnerships|publisher=Pro Bono Australia|date=2011-10-12 |access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abaf.org.au/news--research/videos/festival-of-voices-and-heather-rose.html |title=Festival of Voices and Heather Rose |publisher=ABAF |access-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716125053/http://www.abaf.org.au/news--research/videos/festival-of-voices-and-heather-rose.html |archive-date=16 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==

===Adult novels=== * ''White Heart'' (1999, Transworld Publishers) * ''The Butterfly Man'' (2005, UQP) * ''The River Wife'' (2009, Allen & Unwin) * ''The Museum of Modern Love'' (2016, Allen & Unwin) * ''Bruny'' (2019, Allen & Unwin) * ''A Great Act of Love'' (2025, Allen & Unwin) (2026, Simon & Schuster, USA) (2026 John Murray, UK)

===Children's novels=== * ''Tuesday McGillycuddy series'' (as Angelica Banks, with Danielle Wood) ** ''Finding Serendipity'' (2013, Allen & Unwin) (Magellan, Germany) (Henry Holt, USA) ** ''A Week Without Tuesday'' (2015, Allen & Unwin) (Magellan, Germany) (Henry Holt, USA) ** ''Blueberry Pancakes Forever'' (2016, Allen & Unwin) (Magellan, Germany) (Henry Holt, USA)

=== Memoir ===

* ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here'' (2022, Allen & Unwin)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category-inline}}  * {{official website|http://www.heatherrose.com.au }}

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