Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard (born January 30, 1931, in Sydney, Australia) is a writer and novelist who lives in the United States.

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January 30 - 1931 - Sydney - Australia - Writer - Novelist - United States

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Hazzard's novels include The Evening of the Holiday (1966), The Bay of Noon (1970), and The Transit of Venus (1981), which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963) and People in Glass Houses (1967). Her nonfiction works include Defeat of an Ideal (1973), Countenance of Truth (1990), and the memoir Greene on Capri (2000).

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Author - Short fiction - Nonfiction - Memoir

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In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. She now lives in New York, and travels frequently to Italy, where she stays at her residence in Capri.

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1963 - Francis Steegmuller - 1994 - New York - Italy - Capri

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She won the 1977 O. Henry Award for her short story "A Long Story Short" published in The New Yorker on July 26, 1976.

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O. Henry Award - Short story - The New Yorker

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Hazzard won the 2003 National Book Award and the 2004 Miles Franklin Award for The Great Fire, her first published work of fiction in more than 20 years. The book was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and "longlisted" for the 2004 Man Booker Prize, and named a 2003 Book of the Year by The Economist.

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2003 - National Book Award - 2004 - Miles Franklin Award - Orange Prize for Fiction - Man Booker Prize - The Economist

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