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Rosie Scott

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Biography

Dr Rosie Scott is an internationally published novelist, who has also worked in many other fields centring around human rights and social justice. Her latest novel Faith Singer was included in an international list of ‘50 Essential Reads by living Writers’ compiled by the Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival. Check out the full list. The other Australian writers were Tim Winton and J. Coetzee.

Scott’s long and successful literary career also includes the publication in Australia and internationally of nine critically-acclaimed books (novels, poetry, short stories and essays) all of which have been anthologised extensively in Australia and internationally.

Faith Singer was included in the most popular 40 Australian books as voted for by ASA members during their 40th anniversary celebrations.

Glory Days, her first novel was published in the International Crimes Series in UK, Germany and USA, shortlisted for the New Zealand National Book Award, voted in the Top Ten Kiwi Rock Books and nominated for the List of Books you must read before you Die - a must read list of New Zealand and Australian titles.

She took part in the pilot scheme of the mentoring program for ASA and has been a mentor and supporter of a long list of young and novice writers, many of whom went on to become established writers

Some of the many books she has helped with include those of friends and family, for example Georgia Blain's Closed for Winter, Anne Deveson's Resilience, Dorothy Hewett's Neap Tide, Bella Vendramini's Biting the Big Apple and 'Them and Us : How Neanderthal Predation Shaped Modern Humans.'

Awards

Her novels have been finalists in most major book awards including, the NSW Premiers Fiction Award, Banjo Patterson Writing Award, The National Book Award and The New Zealand National Book Awards.

Her stage play won the Bruce Mason National Playwrights' Award and was later made into a movie, Redheads which won five international awards in

Japan

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France

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Recipient of three literary fellowships and a UWS university scholarship for her doctorate.

Recipient of the Sydney PEN Award for her 'outstanding support and commitment to the values, ideas and aims of PEN'

Memberships

Served on the Committee of Management and on the Executive of the Australian Society of Authors for ten years, during which time she was elected Chair.
Appointed to the Permanent Council of the Australian Society of Authors.
Served on the Sydney PEN committee for eight years, established and chaired Writers in Detention Committee with Tom Keneally,with whom she edited an anthology of refugee writing,Another Country and was elected Vice President of Sydney PEN.
Nomination for a Human Rights Medal nomination together with Tom Keneally for their work on detained writers and the anthology, which was also cited by the judges as instrumental in earning a Community Human Rights Award for Australia PEN.
Co–founded the national reconciliation organisation Women for Wik ten years ago and continues on the committee.

Education

Doctorate in Creative Arts from UWS,

MA Honours in English from Victoria University, Wellington,

Graduate Diploma in Counselling (with an outstanding student citation,) from Institute of Counselling, Sydney,

BA from Auckland University,

Graduate Diploma in Drama (A pass) from Auckland University,

Partially-completed Degree in Social Work from Massey University.

Teaching

University tutor in creative writing at UTS since 2004.

Taught writing to high security violent inmates at Long Bay Gaol for several years

Travelled and worked in Britain, Europe, the Pacific as well as New Zealand and Australia at jobs which included many years as a counsellor and a social worker.

She also did publishing and newspaper work in Australia and Britain and casual jobs like fruit-picking, waitressing and stand-up comedy to supplement her writing- a total of around thirty jobs before becoming a full time writer.

She comes from a well known literary family in New Zealand and has been writing since childhood.

She came to Australia in 1987 and now has dual New Zealand/Australian citizenship.

She is married to Danny Vendramini a science writer and they have two daughters Josie and Bella and two granddaughters Siona and Sabela. They live in Sydney.

Agent
Her agent is Fiona Inglis of Curtis Brown Literary Agency
email fiona@curtisbrown.com.au