Simone Lazaroo

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Simone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in Singapore, she migrated with her family to Western Australia as a young child. Her background is Eurasian. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University.{{when|date=March 2023}}{{cn|date=March 2023}}

Lazaroo's first novel The World Waiting to be Made won the TAG Hungerford award and was published in 1994. She has won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for fiction for three of her published novels, and has been shortlisted for national and international awards. The World Waiting to be Made was inspired by Lazaroo's own experiences and is about a woman who is searching for belonging in Australia, Singapore, and Malacca. It has been translated into French and Mandarin.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

Lazaroo's narrative themes often address issues of racial identity and cultural heritage, belonging and dislocation. Her work has been widely studied by literary scholars, particularly those interested in Asian Australian writing.{{Cite journal|last=Morris|first=Robyn|title=Food, race and the power of recuperative identity politics within Asian Australian women's fiction|journal= Journal of Australian Studies|volume= 32|issue= 4|pages= 499–508|doi=10.1080/14443050802471400|year=2008|s2cid=145138874 }}Morris, Robyn. "Many Degrees of Dark and Light: Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo." In Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English, edited by T. Khoo and K. Louie, Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2005. pp 279-298.{{Cite journal|last=Madsen|first=Deborah L.|date=2009|title=The Exception that Proves the Rule? National Fear, Racial Loathing, Chinese Writing in "UnAustralia"|jstor=41957750|journal=Antipodes|volume=23|issue=1|pages=17–22}}{{Cite journal|last=Giffard-Foret|first=Paul|title="The root of all evil"? Transnational cosmopolitanism in the fiction of Dewi Anggraeni, Simone Lazaroo and Merlinda Bobis|journal= Journal of Postcolonial Writing|volume= 52|issue= 5|pages= 595–609|doi=10.1080/17449855.2016.1202561|year=2016|s2cid=147915922 }}

She was an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2014, and a David TK Wong Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK) in 2000.{{Cite web| url=http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/simone-lazaroo/|title=Simone Lazaroo, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing|website=profiles.murdoch.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-01-25}}

In 2000, her first novel World Waiting To Be Made was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize. Lazaroo has also been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004.{{cn|date=March 2023}}