Robyn Cadwallader

{{Short description|Australian writer}}

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Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry.{{cite web|title= Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A75283|access-date= 11 December 2024}}

In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.{{cite web|title= The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6611275 |access-date= 11 December 2024}} For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.{{cite web|url=http://www.musecanberra.com.au/events/2017/3/12/question-time-robyn-cadwallader|title=Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader|publisher=Festival Muse|accessdate=6 October 2017}}

Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008.{{cite web|last1=Cadwallader|first1=Robyn|title=The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/33780058|website=NLA Trove Books|accessdate=21 April 2018}} In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/interview-robyn-cadwallader-author-of-the-anchoress-20150207-1342fx.html|title=Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress|last=Pryor|first=Sally|date=14 February 2015|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=6 October 2017}}

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children.

Bibliography

  • {{Citation | author1=Cadwallader, Robyn | title=Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete : Archetypal, semiotic, and deconstructionist | year=2008 | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Edwin Mellen Press | isbn=9780773448407 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Cadwallader, Robyn | author2=Friendly Street Poets | title=I Painted Unafraid | year=2010 | publication-date=2010 | publisher=Wakefield Press | isbn=9781862548787 }}{{cite web|title= I Painted Unafraid by Robyn Cadwallader|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4740148 |access-date= 11 December 2024}}
  • {{Citation | editor=Robyn Cadwallader |others=Foreword by Tim Winton | title=We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers |date=October 2015 | publication-date=2015 | publisher=ATF Press | isbn=9781921511721 }}{{cite web|title= We Are Better Than This by Robyn Cadwallader|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6927382 |access-date= 11 December 2024}}
  • {{Citation | author1=Cadwallader, Robyn | title=The Anchoress| year=2015 | publication-date=2015 | publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Australia | isbn=9780732299217 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Cadwallader, Robyn | title=Book of Colours | year=2018 | publication-date=2018 | publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Australia | isbn=9781460752210 }}{{cite web|title= Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7756154 |access-date= 11 December 2024}}

Awards and recognition

  • 2011 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Short Story Award for "The Day for Travelling"{{cite web|title= Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader – Awards |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A75283?mainTabTemplate=agentAwards|access-date= 11 December 2024}}
  • 2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner for Book of Colours
  • 2019 Voss Literary Prize, shortlisted for Book of Colours{{Cite web|url=https://vossliteraryprize.com/short-list-2019/|title=Short List 2019|date=2019-11-14|website=the voss literary prize|language=en|access-date=2019-11-21}}
  • 2019 ACT Book of the Year award winner for Book of Colours{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/02/12/145679/cadwallader-wins-2019-act-book-of-the-year-award/|title=Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award|last=|first=|date=12 February 2020|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-18}}
  • 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize longlisted for The Fire and the Rose{{cite web|title="The 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize Adult Category Longlist" |publisher= Historical Novel Society Australasia|url=https://hnsa.org.au/2023-ara-historical-novel-prize-adult-category-longlist/|access-date= 11 December 2024}}

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