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]