Joanne Fedler
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Joanne Fedler | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Joanne Fedler (born 1967) is an Australian author.[1] She is the author of 16 books including Secret Mothers' Business; When Hungry, Eat; and Your Story: How to Write It so Others Will Want to Read It.
Fedler was born in South Africa and has studied law in both South Africa and the US. She has law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand[2] and from Yale[3] which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship in 1993. She was a lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand[2] from 1994–1995.
Books
Her first novel, The Dreamcloth, was published by Jacana Media[4] in 2005. The Dreamcloth was nominated for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2006.[5][6] Jennifer Crocker wrote that "The Dreamcloth marks a watershed moment in South African fiction."[7][8]
In 2006, her book Secret Mothers' Business[9] was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin.[9] It has also been published in South Africa[4][10] and the United Kingdom,[11][12] with rights sold in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Croatia. To date it has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.
She is also the author of Things Without A Name, a contemporary love story set in the world of rape and domestic violence, published by Allen & Unwin (2008);[9] When Hungry, Eat (2010), Allen & Unwin; It Doesn't Have to Be So Hard: the Secrets to Finding and Keeping Intimacy, co-authored with Graeme Friedman, (2012) Random House; The Reunion, published by Allen & Unwin (2012); and Love in the Time of Contempt: Consolation for Parents of Teenagers, Hardie Grant Books (2015).[13]
