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Natasha Lester
A few years ago, Natasha gave up her job as a marketing executive for Maybelline cosmetics to return to university and study creative writing. She then completed a Master of Creative Arts as well as her first novel, What is Left Over, After, which won the 2008 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for Fiction. She was recently awarded a Fellowship at Varuna, The Writers’ Centre to work on her second novel, which she hopes to fit in around being a mother to three children. Her short stories and poems have been widely published in journals such as Overland, indigo journal and Wet Ink.
Awards
- Winner, Allen & Unwin Varuna Publisher Fellowship (2010)
- Winner, T.A.G. Hungerford Award (2008)
- Longlisted, The Australian / Vogel Award (2008)
- Finalist, Maj Monologue Competition (2008)
Books available from Fremantle Press
Website
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
