Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.^[1] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.^[2]

Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008.^[3] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.^[4]

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children.^[4]

Bibliography

• Cadwallader, Robyn (2008), Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete : Archetypal, semiotic, and deconstructionist, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 9780773448407
• Cadwallader, Robyn; Friendly Street Poets (2010), I painted unafraid, Friendly Street Poets : Wakefield Press, ISBN 9781862548787
• Robyn Cadwallader, ed. (October 2015), We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers, Foreword by Tim Winton, ATF Press (published 2015), ISBN 9781921511721
• Cadwallader, Robyn (2015), The Anchoress, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9780732299217
• Cadwallader, Robyn (2018), The Book of Colours, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9781460752210

Awards and recognition

• 2011 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Short Story Award for "The Day for Travelling"
• 2019 Voss Literary Prize, shortlisted for Book of Colours^[5]
• 2019 ACT Book of the Year award winner for Book of Colours^[6]

References

1. "Robyn Cadwallader". The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
2. "Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader". Festival Muse. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
3. Cadwallader, Robyn. "The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete". NLA Trove Books. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
4. Pryor, Sally (14 February 2015). "Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
5. "Short List 2019". the voss literary prize. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
6. "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

External links

• Official website