Simone Lazaroo
Simone Lazaroo's three award winning novels The Travel Writer, The World Waiting to be Made and The Australian Fiance have been broadcast on radio. All three novels won the WA Premier’s Prize for Fiction. Simone was selected from an international field for the David TK Wong Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in England in 2001, where she wrote some of her third novel, The Travel Writer. The Australian Fiance was shortlisted with novels by Michael Ondaatje and Carlos Fuentes for America’s Kirriyama Rim Pacific Prize in 2000, and is currently optioned for film. Simone’s short stories have been anthologised by Bloomsbury in England, and in Australia. Simone co-judged the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and lectures in Creative Writing at Murdoch University in Perth.
Asian Australian Studies Research Network
The AASRN is a formal network for academic, community and other institutional groups who research in the area of Asian Australian Studies.
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