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J.M. Calder is the pseudonym under which John Clanchy and Mark Henshaw write. John Clanchy was born in Melbourne, but has lived and worked in Canberra since 1975. He was for some years head of an academic advisory centre for students at the Australian National University and foundation director of the Graduate Teaching Program in the university's Graduate School. He has written numerous novels and short stories, some of his work includes The Hard Word, Lessons From the Heart and Breaking Glass (all published by University of Queensland Press). He has won many literary awards including Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Vincenzo's Garden (Steele Rudd Award for Short Stories) (2005) Canberra Critics Circle Award (best book for 2005) for Vincenzo's Garden, ACT Book of the Year Award for The Hard Word (2003), Commonwealth Languages and Literature Award (Europe), PEN-Air NZ prize for fiction, The Antipodes Award (US) for short fiction among others. Mark Henshaw was born in Canberra and has lived at various times in Germany, France and Yugoslavia. For a time he worked as a professional translator. His first novel Out of the Line of Fire (1989) was awarded both the Barbara Ramsden Fellowship of Australian Writers Award and the National Book Council/Quantas New Writers Award. He was also awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship in the same year. In 1994 he won the ACT Literary Award. |
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