Jason Nahrung
{{Short description|Australian writer}}
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Jason Nahrung (born 1968) is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics.*[http://searchresults.news.com.au/Search.action?site=ninews&masthead=couriermail&queryterm=%22Jason+Nahrung%22&searchoption=yes The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was co-winner the 2005 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review.*[http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829110705/http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html |date=29 August 2007 }} Retrieved 13 September 2007. His first novel, The Darkness Within (based on an unpublished novella co-written with Mil Clayton), was published in June 2007 by Hachette Livre in Australia.*[http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200706/s1945042.htm Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).] Nahrung has also published some horror and speculative fiction short stories.
Awards
=Wins=
- 2012 Chronos Award: Best Novel for Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
- 2012 Chronos Award: Best Short Story for "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
- 2005 William Atheling Jr. Award: "Why are publishers afraid of horror?" (The Courier-Mail)
=Nominations=
- 2012 WSFA Small Press Award: "The Mornington Ride", Epilogue (FableCroft Publishing).
- 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
- 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
- 2012 Australian Shadows Award: Blood and Dust (Xoum Publishing).
- 2012 Ditmar Award, Novel: Salvage (Twelfth Planet Press).
- 2008 Ditmar Award, Novel: The Darkness Within
- 2008 Ditmar Award, New Talent
- 2004 William Atheling Jr. Award
=Honourable mentions=
- 2008 Aurealis Award, Horror novel: The Darkness Within
Bibliography
=Novels=
- The Darkness Within – with Mil Clayton, (Hachette Livre)
- Salvage, 2012, (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Blood and Dust, 2012, (Xoum Publishing)
=Short stories=
- "Watermarks", (2014), Cosmos magazine.
- "The Preservation Society", (2014), Dimension6, Coeur de Lion.
- "The Mornington Ride", (2012), Epilogue, Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
- reprinted in Focus 2012: highlights of Australian short fiction, (2013), FableCroft Publishing.
- "Hello Kitty", (2012), Midnight Echo No. 8.
- "The Last Boat to Eden", (2012), Surviving the End, Dark Prints Press.
- reprinted in Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012, (2013), Ticonderoga Publications.
- "The Kiss", (2012), Tales from the Bell Club.
- "Breaking the Wire", (2012), Aurealis No. 47.
- "An Incident at Portsea, 1967", (2011), After the World: Corpus Christi, Issue 4.
- "Messiah on the Rock", (2011), Anywhere but Earth, Coeur de Lion.
- "Children of the Cane", (2011), Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications.
- "Wraiths", (2011), Winds of Change, CSFG.
- reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011, (2012), Ticonderoga Publications.
- "Resurrection in Red", (2011), More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications.
- "Wet Work", (2011), After the Rain, ed. Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing).
- "Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn", (2008), Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager.
- "The Refugee", (2007), Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane.
- "Kadimakara and Curlew", (2007), Daikaiju 2, Agog! Press.
- reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol.3.
- "Pain Threshold", (2006), Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press.
- reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 (Brimstone Press)
- "Time to Write", (2005) The Devil in Brisbane.
- "Triage", (2005), Sf-envision.
- "Night Watch", (2005), Elsewhere, CSFG Publishing.
- "Spare Parts", (2003), Glimpses.
- reprinted in Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror (2011).
- "Prime Cuts", (2002), Antipodean SF.
- "Summer Haze", (2001), Visions.
Reviews
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070821123401/http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/book_0003.htm Review of The Darkness Within in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine by Tehani Wessley (August 2007)]
- [http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2007/08/review-darkness-within.html Review of The Darkness Within in HorrorScope by Mark Smith-Briggs (23 Aug 2007).]
- [http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=author:nahrung_jason Reviews of Nahrung's work on ASif!]
Notes
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References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090131011141/http://www.aurealisawards.com/Winners.htm Aurealis Awards winners archive] Retrieved 17 February 2008.
- [http://searchresults.news.com.au/Search.action?site=ninews&masthead=couriermail&queryterm=%22Jason+Nahrung%22&searchoption=yes The Courier-Mail newspaper list of articles by Jason Nahrung.]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-new-romantics.html Helene, Talie (June 2007). "Interview: The New Romantics". HorrorScope.]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070829110705/http://splints.customer.netspace.net.au/ditmar1024res/calldit1024.html Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive.] Retrieved 17 February 2008.
- [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200604/s1616997.htm Kemble, Gary (16 April 2006). "Jason Nahrung: the ups and downs of horror". ABC online news (Articulate).]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200706/s1945042.htm Kemble, Gary (9 June 2007). "Jason Nahrung and Mil Clayton: Looking on the dark side". ABC online news (Articulate).]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809025345/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar.html Locus magazine index to Ditmar Awards.] Retrieved 17 February 2008.
External links
- [http://www.jasonnahrung.com/ Jason Nahrung website]
- [http://www.myspace.com/jasonnahrung Jason Nahrung MySpace page]
- [http://www.hha.com.au/authors/jasonnahrung.html Hachette Livre author page: Jason Nahrung]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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- [http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/salvage-2 Twelfth Planet Press, Salvage]
- [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17085651-blood-and-dust Goodreads, Blood and Dust]
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Category:Australian horror writers