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Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
Leanne Frahm


Role
  
Writer

Books
  
Borderline

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Genre
  
Speculative short fiction

Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.

Contents

Biography

Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best fan writer award. Frahm's first publication was in 1980, entitled "The Wood for the Trees" which was published in the anthology Chrysalis 6, edited by Roy Torgeson. In 1981 Frahm's work, "Deus Ex Corporus", won the 1981 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. She won a Ditmar again in 1994 for "Catalyst". In 1996 her story "Borderline" won the 1996 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. The following year she won the Ditmar Award for best fan writer for the second time.

Awards and nominations

Aurealis Awards

  • Best horror short story
  • 1995: Nomination: "Entropy"
  • Best science fiction short story
  • 1996: Win: "Borderline"
  • 2005: Nomination: "Skein Dogs"
  • Ditmar Awards

  • Best fan writer
  • 1979: Nomination
  • 1980: Win
  • 1981: Nomination
  • 1984: Nomination
  • 1998: Win
  • Best Australian short fiction
  • 1981: Win: "Deus Ex Corporus"
  • 1981: Nomination: "Passages to Earth"
  • 1987: Nomination: "The Supramarket"
  • 1997: Nomination: "Borderline"
  • Best short fiction
  • 1992: Nomination: "Olive Truffles"
  • 1994: Win: "Catalyst"
  • 1995: Nomination: "Jinx Ship"
  • 1995: Nomination: "Land's End"
  • 1996: Nomination: "Entropy"
  • References

    Leanne Frahm Wikipedia