Chloe Hooper

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Australian author (born 1973)

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::summary Australian author (born 1973) ::

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nameChloe Hooper
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birth_nameChloe Melisande Hooper
birth_date
birth_placeMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
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occupationNovelist, journalist
languageEnglish
nationalityAustralian
educationLauriston Girls' School
alma_materUniversity of Melbourne
Columbia University
years_active2002–present
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| name = Chloe Hooper | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Chloe-Hooper Wikipedia.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Chloe Melisande Hooper | birth_date = | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, journalist | language = English | nationality = Australian | education = Lauriston Girls' School | alma_mater = University of Melbourne Columbia University | years_active = 2002–present Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.

Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2018 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.

Books

Awards and recognition

Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.

References

References

  1. "The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper". [[Penguin Books.
  2. "The Arsonist".
  3. "Past Award Recipients".
  4. [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/chloe-hooper/ Chloe Hooper @ Fantastic Fiction]
  5. "The Tall Man".
  6. (2018-12-12). "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced".
  7. "The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire". The Stella Prize 2019.
  8. (2020-05-21). "National Biography Award".

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