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Halligan's many awards include The Age Book of the Year Award and the Nita Kibble Award for her 1992 novel Lovers' Knots.
Marion Mildred Halligan AM was an Australian writer and novelist.

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"My business is words," Marion Halligan wrote. But it was more than a business: it was a passion and a vocation that inspired many award-winning books, a host of devoted readers and a secure place as one of Australia's most important writers.

Her writing could be sensuous and playful, witty and Gothic, and sometimes resonated with the experience of more than a life's fair share of tragedy. Fellow author Alice Pung described her as "a writer of unfathomable grace and stoicism".

Marion Mildred Crothall was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales. Her father was a public servant and she was the eldest of three sisters. "My father was very patriarchal but very affectionate and proud of me ... I was the good child, Rosie and Brenda were naughty," she said of her childhood. The book that changed her life was The Rocks of Han, a Sunday-school anniversary prize when she was five. The words and pictures were perfect, she said.

She worked as a school teacher and journalist, and moved to Canberra in 1963, when she married Graham Halligan. They had two chi

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Marion Halligan

Australian novelist (1940–2024)

Marion Mildred HalliganAM (16 April 1940 – 19 February 2024) was an Australian writer and novelist. She authored twenty-three books, including fiction, short-fiction, and non-fiction. Her novel, Lovers' Knots (1992) won The Age Book of the Year, The ACT Book of the Year and the inaugural Nita B. Kibble Award. The Golden Dress (1998) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Dublin IMPAC Award and The Age Book of the Year. Her novels The Point (2003) and Valley of Grace (2009) also won The ACT Book of the Year. Halligan Served as Chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council (1992-95) and the Australian National Word Festival. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), General Division, in 2006 'for service to Literature as an author, to the promotion of Australian writers and to support for literary events and professional organisations'.

Biography

Marion Mildred Halligan nee Crothall was born in Newcastle, NSW, in 1940, the older sister to Rosie (later Rosanne Fitzgib

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Halligan, Marion (Mildred Crothall) 1940-

PERSONAL: Born April 16, 1940, in Newcastle, Australia; daughter of A. J. (a public servant) and M. A. (a homemaker; maiden name, Cogan) Crothall; married Graham James Halligan (a university lecturer), June 8, 1963 (died, November, 1998); children: Lucy Beatrice, James Sebastian. Ethnicity: "English extraction." Education: University of Newcastle, B.A. (with honors), 1961, diploma of education, 1962.

ADDRESSES: Home and offıce—6 Caldwell St., Hackett, Australian Capital Territory 2602, Australia; fax: 61-26-249-7120. Agent—Margaret Connolly, 37 Ormond St., Paddington, New South Wales 2021, Australia. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer. Teacher in Canberra, Australia, 1963-65 and 1974-86; Charles Sturt University, writer in residence, 1990; University of Adelaide, writer in residence, then distinguished visiting scholar; also writer in residence at Monash University and Latrobe University; gives readings from her works in Australia and abroad, including Keesing Studio, Paris, France. Australian National Word F