Robyn Cadwallader
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Robyn Cadwallader | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable awards | 2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner |
Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry.[1]
In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.[2] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[3]
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.[4] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.[5]
Cadwallader resides in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University.[5]
- 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, Wakefield Press, ISBN 9781862548787[6]
- Robyn Cadwallader, ed. (October 2015), We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers, Foreword by Tim Winton, ATF Press (published 2015), ISBN 9781921511721[7]
- Cadwallader, Robyn (2015), The Anchoress, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9780732299217
- Cadwallader, Robyn (2018), Book of Colours, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9781460752210[8]
