Delia Falconer

Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist. She is the author of a novel, The Service of Clouds and a novella, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She has been described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in The Best Australian Stories 1999, as "the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature of this country". Falconer lives in Sydney. She frequently publishes reviews in newspapers and journals. Her latest (non-fiction) book is Sydney (University of New South Wales Press, 2010).

Falconer is an only child of graphic designer parents; her mother is of Chilean background. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2018 she won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for "The Opposite of Glamour", published in the Sydney Review of Books.

Bibliography

Fiction

• The service of clouds, Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-36027-2
• The lost thoughts of soldiers, Picador, 2005, ISBN 978-0-330-42179-9
• Sydney: Haunted City, New South, 2010, ISBN 978-1-921410-92-5

As editor

• The Penguin Book of the Road, an anthology of stories of the road (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008)
• The Best Australian Stories 2008 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008).
• The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).

Book reviews

Date	Review article	Work(s) reviewed
2014	Falconer, Delia (September 2014). "Dark activities : Mark Henshaw's confronting new novel". Australian Book Review. 364: 9–10.	Henshaw, Mark. The snow kimono. Text Publishing.

External links

• Delia Falconer on Twitter