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Kyra Giorgi

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Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian.^[1]

Early life and career

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Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western Australia—her mother is the novelist Gail Jones.^[2] Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University^[3] in 2012 with the thesis - Saudade, lítost, hüzün: cultural identity and melancholic fatalism on the margins of Europe.^[4]

The Circle and the Equator was her first book of fiction, and was Highly Commended in the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.^[5]

Awards

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At the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her work The Circle and the Equator won the University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award.^[6]

Works

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Giorgi, Kyra (2014), Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe, Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-48700-4^[7]
Giorgi, Kyra (2017), The Circle and the Equator, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-923-7

References

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^ Giorgi, Kyra (2014). Emotions, language and identity on the margins of Europe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137403476.

^ Wyndham, Susan (7 August 2015). "A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones links six foreigners with the city's dark past". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

^ "Kyra Giorgi". UWA Publishing. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

^ "Creative Arts Fellows | National Library of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

^ "The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript". UWA Publishing. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

^ "Winners and finalists". Queensland Literary Awards. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

^ Wyndham, Susan (7 August 2015). "A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones links six foreigners with the city's dark past". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

External links

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Official website

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