Meaghan Delahunt

{{Short description|Australian born Scottish novelist}}

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Meaghan Delahunt (born 1961) is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland.{{cite web |title= Meaghan Delahunt |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |url= http://www.bloomsbury.com/ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=9780747557654 |accessdate= 2007-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044555/http://www.bloomsbury.com/ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=9780747557654 |archivedate= 28 September 2007 }} In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.

In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia.{{cite web |title = Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval |publisher= ABC Radio National, The Book Show |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2006/1601285.htm |accessdate= 2007-07-16}}

Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House (Bloomsbury, 2001), won a regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in 2002, the Saltire Award for First Novel, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the year award, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.{{cite web|title=2002 NSW Premier's Literary Awards |publisher=NSW Minister for the Arts |url=http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/Releases/2002%20NSW%20Premier's%20Literary%20Awards.doc |accessdate=2007-07-16 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207205851/http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/Releases/2002%20NSW%20Premier%27s%20Literary%20Awards.doc |archivedate=7 February 2007 |url-status=dead }} Her second novel, The Red Book (Granta, 2008), was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2008.{{cite web |title= SCOTTISH LITERARY AWARDS |publisher= Saltire Society |url= http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm |accessdate= 2009-11-15 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100327074404/http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm |archive-date= 27 March 2010 |url-status= dead }}

Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.{{cite web |title = Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt |publisher= Living. Scotsman.com |url= http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=277122003 |accessdate= 2007-07-16}}