Debra Adelaide
{{short description|Australian novelist, writer and academic|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic.{{cite web|title= Austlit — Debra Adelaide |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A22496|access-date= 21 June 2024}} She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.
Biography
Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/the-art-of-dying/2008/05/22/1211183000032.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2|title = The art of dying|date = 24 May 2008}} A contemporary of writers Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, she attended Gymea High School and then, via a teacher's scholarship, she completed a BA (Honours) and MA (Honours) in English literature at the University of Sydney. She then completed a PhD in Australian women's literature in 1991 there,{{cite book |last= Cusack|first= Dymphna|author-link= |date= |title= Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters|url= |location= |publisher= University of Queensland Press|page= 422|isbn=0702231924}} and in the process completed her first book, a bibliography of Australian women's literature.
While studying, Debra Adelaide worked as a university tutor and research assistant, and afterwards became a freelance editor, author and book reviewer. She commenced writing fiction in the early 1990s and her first novel, The Hotel Albatross, was published in 1995.
She is currently an associate professor in creative practice at the University of Technology Sydney, where she teaches in the undergraduate communication program and teaches and supervises postgraduate creative writing.
She was married until 2003 and has three children.
Works
Adelaide has published 12 books, including novels, anthologies and reference books on Australian literature. Her novels are The Household Guide to Dying (Picador:2008), The Hotel Albatross (Vintage: 1995) and Serpent Dust (Vintage: 1998). She has published two collections of short fiction, entitled Zebra: and other stories (Picador: 2019) and Letter to George Clooney (Picador: 2013) and also contributed to and edited the anthology Acts of Dogs (Vintage: 2003) in which leading Australian and NZ authors have written stories and memoirs on the theme of dogs, and the Motherlove series of anthologies (Random House: 1996; 1997; 1998).{{cite web | url=http://www.readings.com.au/collection/debra-adelaide | title=Debra Adelaide — Readings Books }}
Zebra won the 2019 University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection.{{Cite web|url=https://publishing.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/writing-and-publishing/jinghua-qian/winners-announced-for-the-2019-queensland-literary-awards-259209|title=Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards|last=Qian|first=Jinghua|date=12 November 2019|website=ArtsHub Australia|language=en-au|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112160433/https://publishing.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/writing-and-publishing/jinghua-qian/winners-announced-for-the-2019-queensland-literary-awards-259209 |archive-date=12 November 2019 |access-date=2019-11-13}}
Bibliography
=Novels=
- The Hotel Albatross (1995){{cite web|title= The Hotel Albatross by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/690850|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- Serpent Dust (1998){{cite web|title= Serpent Dust by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1720766|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- The Household Guide to Dying (2008){{cite web|title= The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4313939|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- The Women's Pages (2015){{cite web|title= The Women's Pages by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6890730|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
=Short stories=
- Letter to George Clooney (2013){{cite web|title= Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6259354|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- Zebra (2019){{cite web|title= Zebra by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7860593|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
=Non-fiction=
- Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide (Pandora, 1988){{cite web|title= Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/307832|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing (2019){{cite web|title= The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8071053|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
=As editor=
- A Window in the Dark (1991).{{cite web|title= A Window in the Dark by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2965650|access-date= 21 June 2024}} Autobiography of Dymphna Cusack
- Motherlove: Stories About Births, Babies and Beyond (1996){{cite web|title= Motherlove: Stories about Births, Babies and Beyond by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/978680|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- Motherlove 2: More Stories About Births, Babies and Beyond (1997){{cite web|title= Motherlove 2: More Stories About Births, Babies and Beyond by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2962712|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (1998){{cite web|title= A Bright and Fiery Troop by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/356518|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- Cutting the Cord: Stories of Children, Love and Loss (1998){{cite web|title= Cutting the Cord by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1823462|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- Acts of Dog: Writers on the Canine Divine (2003){{cite web|title= Acts Of Dog: Writers on the Canine Divine by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3048632|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
- The Simple Act of Reading (2015){{cite web|title= The Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286340|access-date= 21 June 2024}}
Awards
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Category:20th-century Australian novelists
Category:21st-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian freelance journalists
Category:Australian women novelists
Category:People from the Sutherland Shire
Category:Writers from New South Wales
Category:21st-century Australian women writers
Category:Australian Book Review people
Category:20th-century Australian women academics