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Robyn Cadwallader

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Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.[1] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[2]

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.[3] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.[4]

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children.[4]

Bibliography

  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2008), Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete : Archetypal, semiotic, and deconstructionist, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 9780773448407
  • Cadwallader, Robyn; Friendly Street Poets (2010), I painted unafraid, Friendly Street Poets : Wakefield Press, ISBN 9781862548787
  • Cadwallader, Robyn; Cadwallader, Robyn, (editor.); Winton, Tim, 1960-, (writer of foreword.); Winton, Tim (2015), We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers, ATF Press, ISBN 9781921511721 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2015), The Anchoress, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9780732299217
  • Cadwallader, Robyn (2018), The Book of Colours, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9781460752210

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ "Robyn Cadwallader". The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader". Festival Muse. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  3. ^ Cadwallader, Robyn. "The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete". NLA Trove Books. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b Pryor, Sally (14 February 2015). "Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Short List 2019". the voss literary prize. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  6. ^ "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)