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Julia Lawrinson

Julia Lawrinson grew up in the outer suburbs of Perth and left school at age fifteen, but completed a PhD in writing in 2004. She has held a variety of jobs, from checkout chick to roadhouse attendant to speechwriter for the Western Australian Department of Health. Julia’s first novel, Obsession, won the 2001 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Young Adult Writing, and is reportedly one of the books most stolen from libraries.

Awards

Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 2001

Books available from Fremantle Press

Website

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things