Brenda Walker

Dr Brenda Walker was born in Grafton, New South Wales in 1957. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English (on the work of Samuel Beckett) at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She is now Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Her first novel, Crush, published in 1991 won the 1990 T. A. G. Hungerford Award for fiction^[1] and was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. Her novel, The Wing of Night, was shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award, and won the Nita Kibble Literary Award in the same year.

Brenda Walker is the sister of legendary songwriter and musician Don Walker, of Cold Chisel fame.

[edit] Awards

Miles Franklin Award	The Wing of Night, 2006 shortlisted
Nita Kibble Literary Award	The Wing of Night, 2006 winner
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards	Poe's Cat, 1999 shortlisted One More River, 1993 shortlisted Crush, 1991 shortlisted
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	The Wing of Night, 2006 shortlisted Poe's Cat, 1999 shortlisted
Victorian Premier's Literary Award	Poe's Cat, 1999 shortlisted
T. A. G. Hungerford Award	Crush, 1990 - for an unpublished work of fiction by a West Australian author ^[1]

Katharine Susanah Prichard: Centenary Essays (1983)
Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics (1989)
Elizabeth Jolley: New Critical Essays (1991)
Risks (1996)
The Writer's Reader: A Guide to Writing Fiction and Poetry (2002)

Persondata
NAME	Walker, Brenda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian novelist and academic
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH