Nerida Newton

Nerida Newton
Born	1972 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation	literary author
Nationality	Australian
Period	2003 - 2006
Genres	historical fiction; literary fiction
www.neridanewton.com

Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel, The Lambing Flat won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 The Lambing Flat was shortlisted the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Asia/Pacific region (Best First Book) and One Book One Brisbane. Later that year, Nerida was named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia's best young novelists. Her second novel, Death of a Whaler was released in 2006.

Biography

Early life

She was born in 1972, in Brisbane. After attending high school in Brisbane, they spent a year as an exchange student in South Africa, staying primarily in Pretoria. Upon returning to Australia, she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism, Political Science, Literature) at the University of Queensland. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Communication at the Queensland University of Technology. She has since lived and worked in Malaysia and the UK working as a copywriter, and later a technical writer in both the UK and Brisbane. In 2001, she was accepted into the University of Queensland’s Masters of Philosophy degree in Creative Writing and completed The Lambing Flat that year. The resulting manuscript was published by UQP in October 2003. She tutored for a time in the University of Queensland creative writing programmes.

She has had short stories published in Australian Short Stories and Inkspot, articles published in the The Courier-Mail, and has presented at various writer's festivals around Australia.

Works

Published works

• Newton, Nerida (2003). The Lambing Flat. UQP. ISBN 0-7022-3386-2. 
• Newton, Nerida (2006). Death of a Whaler. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-74114-791-3. 

External links

• Nerida Newton's Home Page