Tegan Bennett Daylight
{{Short description|Australian writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Tegan Bennett Daylight
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| birth_name = Tegan Bennett
| birth_place= Sydney, New South Wales
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
|website = [https://teganbennettdaylight.com/ Official website]
| spouse = Russell Daylight
| occupation = Author, teacher, critic
| children = 2
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Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories. She is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers. She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006).
Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”.{{cite news |title=Happy endings for the adventurous |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/happy-endings-for-the-adventurous-20020518-gdfaef.html |access-date=8 October 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |issue=Culture: Books |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |date=18 May 2002}}
Bennett Daylight's story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.{{cite web |title=The Shortlist 2016 Stella Prize |url=https://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2016-prize/shortlist-2016/ |website=The Stella Prize |access-date=8 October 2020}}
Daylight also works as a Creative Writing lecturer at Western Sydney University.
Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children.
Publications
=Novels=
- Bombora (1996) published by Allen & Unwin{{cite web |title=Bombora Tegan Bennett |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/988902 |website=National Library of Australia Catalogue |year=1996 |publisher=National Library of Australia |isbn=9781864480108 |access-date=8 October 2020}}
- What Falls Away (2001) published by Allen & Unwin{{cite web |title=What falls away / Tegan Bennett |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/733187 |website=National Library of Australia Catalogue |date=4 September 2023 |publisher=National Library of Australia |isbn=9781865084701 |access-date=8 October 2020}}
- Safety (2006) published by Vintage{{cite web |title=Safety / Tegan Bennett Daylight |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3575491 |website=National Library of Australia Catalogue |year=2006 |publisher=National Library of Australia |isbn=9781740513906 |access-date=8 October 2020}}{{cite web |title=Safety: Tegan Bennett Daylight |url=https://www.penguin.com.au/books/safety-9781740513906 |website=Penguin Books Australia |access-date=8 October 2020}}
=Short stories=
=Essays=
- The Details (2020) published by Simon & Schuster Australia{{cite book |title=The Details: On Love, Death and Reading By Tegan Bennett Daylight |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Details/Tegan-Bennett-Daylight/9781760855253 |date=8 July 2020 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9781760855253 |access-date=8 October 2020}}
Awards and honours
- The Stella Interview - The Stella Price (2016)
- The Stella Prize Shortlist (2016){{cite web |title=The Shortlist 2016 Stella Prize |url=https://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2016-prize/shortlist-2016/ |website=The Stella Prize |access-date=8 October 2020}}
- The Saturday Paper's Books of the Year (2015){{cite news |title=Books 2015 #1 |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2015/12/31/books-2015-1/14504436002755 |access-date=8 October 2020 |work=The Saturday Paper |issue=91 |publisher=Schwartz Publishing |date=19 December 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://teganbennettdaylight.com Official website]
- [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9781740513906 Safety - Tegan Bennett Daylight], randomhouse.com. Accessed 30 March 2024.
- [http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/safety/2006/03/13/1142098371674.html Sydney Morning Herald review of Safety] smh.com.au. Accessed 30 March 2024.
- [http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/site/articleIDs/755106484746111DCA25710A0027616F Bulletin Book Reviews' review of Safety]
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Category:Australian women novelists
Category:20th-century Australian novelists
Category:21st-century Australian novelists
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