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Fiona McGregor

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Fiona Kelly McGregor
BornSydney, New South Wales
OccupationWriter and performance artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1992 – present
Notable worksIndelible Ink (2010)
Notable awardsSteele Rudd Award (1995)
The Age Book of the Year Award (2011)

Fiona Kelly McGregor is an Australian writer, performance artist, and art critic whose third novel, Indelible Ink, won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year Award.

Early life and education

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McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[1]

Career

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McGregor has written for a variety of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, HEAT, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Times Literary Supplement, Art Monthly, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and RealTime. In 2020 she began publishing under her full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor.

Following the publication of her first two books in 1993 and 1994, McGregor was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997.[2] Since then, McGregor has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards for her short stories, novels and essays.

As a performance artist McGregor toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09,[3] and she screened her 4-hour video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011.[4] In November 2011, she presented a solo show at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, entitled Water Series. Her fourth book, Strange Museums, is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006.

Awards and nominations

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Selected works

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Novels

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  • Au Pair (1993)
  • Chemical Palace (2002)
  • Indelible Ink (2010)
  • Iris (2022)

Short story collection

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  • Suck My Toes (1994)

Non-fiction

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  • Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008) (travel memoir, performance art critique)
  • A Novel Idea (2019) (photoessay)
  • Buried Not Dead (2021) (essay collection)

References

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  1. ^ a b Steger, Jason (26 August 2011). "Winning words". The Age. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists 2007". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 June 2007. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019.
  3. ^ Waites, James. "You Have the Body: You Win the Prize". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  4. ^ Mudie, Ella. "Vertigo: Beautiful fear". RealTime Arts. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Fiona McGregor". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. ^ "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  7. ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  8. ^ Sun, Michael (19 June 2023). "Miles Franklin award 2023: shortlist revealed for Australia's prestigious literary prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
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