Simone Lazaroo
Simone Lazaroo emigrated to Perth from Singapore with her family when she was two years old. She has been a teacher of Art and English at various schools and also worked for the WA Ministry of Education. Her first novel, The World Waiting To Be Made, is full of irony and bitter observations about the very white Australia in which the un-named narrator grew up. The historical backdrop for World is 1960s-1980s Australia during, and just after, the White Australia policy. The book won the TAG Hungerford Award for Fiction in 1993. Simone's second novel, The Australian Fiance, was published by Picador (Pan Macmillan) in 2000. Also in 2000, she won the prestigious David T.K. Wong Fellowship (UK), which allowed her to spend time at East Anglia University. Simone was awarded her doctorate from Edith Cowan University in 2005, and her third novel, The Travel Writer (2006) won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University.
The Travel Writer. Picador, 2006.
The Australian Fiance. Picador, 2000.
The World Waiting To Be Made. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1994.
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