Jennifer Down | |
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Born | 1990 (age 33–34) |
Alma mater | |
Notable works | Bodies of Light |
Notable awards | Miles Franklin Award (2022) |
Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel Bodies of Light.
Down was in born 1990. [1] She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying professional writing and editing at RMIT. [2]
Down has worked as a writer, editor, and a translator. [2]
Down won the 2014 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for "Aokigahara" [3] and received third prize in The Age Short Story Award for "A Ticket to Switzerland" in 2010. [2]
Down's first novel, Our Magic Hour, was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. [4] She was chosen as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 2017 for Pulse Points and 2018 for Bodies of Light. [5] She won the Steele Rudd Award at the Queensland Literary Awards [6] and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize in 2018 for Pulse Points. [2]
Her 2021 novel, Bodies of Light, won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award [7] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, [8] the 2022 Stella Prize, [9] the 2022 fiction Age Book of the Year, [10] the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award [11] and the 2022 Voss Literary Prize. [12]