Name Tegan Daylight | Role Author | |
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Books What Falls Away, Bombora, Mrs Mooneyham's Teeth, Safety, Ghosts: And Other Scary Critters | ||
David malouf interviewed by tegan bennett daylight at sydney writers festival
Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories.
Contents
- David malouf interviewed by tegan bennett daylight at sydney writers festival
- Tegan bennett daylight on her acclaimed new short story collection six bedrooms
- Career
- Novels
- Short stories
- Awards and acclamations
- Personal life
- References
She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006). Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Her latest book, the story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.
Tegan bennett daylight on her acclaimed new short story collection six bedrooms
Career
Daylight is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers.
Novels
Short stories
Awards and acclamations
Personal life
When Bennett Daylight is not writing she works as an English lecturer at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales. Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick.