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Pat Jacobs
Pat Jacobs was born in Collie, Western Australia. An historian, fiction writer and reviewer, she has received awards for both history and her short fiction published in Australian journals and anthologies. Her first book, Mister Neville, a biography of A.O. Neville, was published by Fremantle Press in 1990. Her novel, Going Inland, published in 1998, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction in 1991. The novel was nominated and long-listed for the 2000 Dublin Impac Award.
Awards
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1999
Nominated, Dublin IMPAC Award, 1999
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Going Inland 1998
- Going Inland eBook 1998
From the Catalogue
House of Fiction @ Sydney Writers Festival
Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the harrowing tale of a forbidden love affair and an abandoned child. She talks to Caroline Baum at the Sydney Writers Festival
