Kyra Giorgi

Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian.^[1]

Early life and career

Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western Australia—her mother is the novelist Gail Jones.^[2] Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University^[3] in 2012 with the thesis - Saudade, lítost, hüzün: cultural identity and melancholic fatalism on the margins of Europe.^[4]

The Circle and the Equator was her first book of fiction, and was Highly Commended in the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.^[5]

Awards

At the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her work The Circle and the Equator won the University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award.^[6]

Works

• Giorgi, Kyra (2014), Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe, Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-48700-4^[7]
• Giorgi, Kyra (2017), The Circle and the Equator, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-923-7

References

1. Giorgi, Kyra (2014). Emotions, language and identity on the margins of Europe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137403476.
2. Wyndham, Susan (7 August 2015). "A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones links six foreigners with the city's dark past". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
3. "Kyra Giorgi". UWA Publishing. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
4. "Creative Arts Fellows | National Library of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
5. "The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript". UWA Publishing. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
6. "Winners and finalists". Queensland Literary Awards. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
7. Wyndham, Susan (7 August 2015). "A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones links six foreigners with the city's dark past". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

External links

• Official website