Lucy Treloar

Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist.^[1]

Education[edit]

Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria.^[1] She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the University of Melbourne and a diploma of professional writing and editing from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.^[2]

Literary career[edit]

In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "The Dog and the Sea".^[3]

Her first novel, Salt Creek, won the 2016 Dobbie Literary Award^[4] and was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award^[5] and the 2016 Walter Scott Prize.^[6] Her second novel, Wolfe Island, won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award^[7] and was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020.^[8]

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

• Treloar, Lucy (2015). Salt Creek. Picador Australia. ISBN 978-1-74353-903-3.
• Treloar, Lucy (2019). Wolfe Island. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-76055-315-9.
• Treloar, Lucy (2023). Days of Innocence and Wonder. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-76098-273-7.

Essay[edit]

• "Writing the Apocalypse", in Meanjin, vol. 79, no. 2, June 2020, pages 26–36

Short stories^[1][edit]

• "The Dog and the Sea"
• "In the Park"
• "Wrecking Ball"
• "Natural Selection"

References[edit]