Simone Lazaroo
Simone Lazaroo was born in Singapore, and migrated with her family to Western Australia in 1963. She lectures in Creative Writing at Murdoch University in Perth.
Simone is the author of two award-winning novels: The World Waiting to be Made and The Australian Fiance. Film rights in The Australian Fiance have been optioned by Kurrajong Films. Her prizes include the T.A.G Hungerford Award, the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction and a shortlisting in the Kirriyama Rim Pacific Prize in 2000 with Carlos Fuentes and Michael Ondaatje. Her short stories have been anthologised in England and Australia. Simone was a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2004.
She lives in Fremantle, WA.
Books by Simone Lazaroo
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The World Waiting to be Made
A young woman travels back to her birthplace, Singapore, and to Malacca, her ancestral home, to discover rich, complex and mysterious aspects of her own identity.
Winner TAG Hungerford Award
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Winner Western Australian Premier’s Award - Fiction 1995
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The Australian Fiance
Singapore, 1949. A young Eurasian woman, a survivor of the Japanese Occupation, meets the son of a privileged Australian family. She accompanies him to Broome with hope for a better life, despite doubts from her family.
- Western Australian Premier’s Book Award - Fiction 2000
- Shortlisted Kirriyama Rim Pacific Prize, 2000
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The Travel Writer
London, 1985. Ghislaine de Sequeira lies in a hospital. Once an obituary writer in Malacca, she had practised eloquence in the face of death for years. But now she is dying, and it is her bereft daughter Isabelle’s turn to articulate the meaning of a life at its end.
Isabelle tries to stem her grief by seeking solace in her writing tutor and piecing together the story of her mother’s post-war Malaccan life and her desire for the travel writer, a man who alters the course of both women’s lives irrevocably.
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