Carrie Tiffany

Carrie Tiffany was born in England and migrated to Western Australia in the 1970s. She worked as a park ranger in the Northern Territory and Victoria and now works as an agricultural journalist.

Carrie’s fiction has been published in various Australian journals, including Overland and Ulittara and in New Australian Writing. Her stories have been highly commended in the Age, University of Canberra, Judah Waten and HQ Flamingo short story awards. In 2002 Carrie won the Australian Book Review Short Fiction Award.

In 2003 her first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living won the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. It was published to great reviews in Australia in June 2005 and was published in the UK and US in 2006.

Carrie is working on her second novel and lives in Melbourne.

Books by Carrie Tiffany

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  Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

  "The literary debut of 2005" Andrew Riemer, SMH

  It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. It is a brief time of optimism and advancement. With failing crops and the threat of a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have destroyed, and the impact of progress on an ancient and fragile landscape. Erotically charged, and shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel evokes the Australian landscape in all its stark beauty and vividly captures the hope and disappointment of an era.

  Winner Dobbie Award, 2006
  Winner, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2005
  Winner, Victorian Premier’s Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, 2003
  Highly Commended, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal 2006

  Short listed Miles Franklin Award, 2006
  Short listed for the Orange Prize 2006
  Short listed Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2006
  Short listed, Best First Book Award, 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
  Finalist - Melbourne Prize Trust - Best Writing Award 2006
  Short listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2006
  Longlisted - 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

  Starred review in Publishers' Weekly
  Starred review in Kirkus
  Book Sense Pick for May
  Book of the Month Club
  One Book One State, Western Australia, 2006

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