Simone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in Singapore, she migrated with her family to Western Australia as a young child. Her background is Eurasian. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University.[when?][citation needed]
Lazaroo's first novel The World Waiting to be Made won the TAG Hungerford award and was published in 1994. She has won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for fiction for three of her published novels, and has been shortlisted for national and international awards. The World Waiting to be Made was inspired by Lazaroo's own experiences and is about a woman who is searching for belonging in Australia, Singapore, and Malacca. It has been translated into French and Mandarin.[citation needed]
Lazaroo's narrative themes often address issues of racial identity and cultural heritage, belonging and dislocation. Her work has been widely studied by literary scholars, particularly those interested in Asian Australian writing.[1][2][3][4]
She was an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2014, and a David TK Wong Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK) in 2000.[5]
In 2000, her first novel World Waiting To Be Made was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize. Lazaroo has also been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004.[citation needed]
Bibliography edit
- World Waiting To Be Made (1994)
- The Australian Fiance (2000)
- The Travel Writer (2006)
- Sustenance (2010)
- Lost River: Four Albums (2014)
- ‘Between Water and the Night Sky’ (2023)
References edit
- ^ Morris, Robyn (2008). "Food, race and the power of recuperative identity politics within Asian Australian women's fiction". Journal of Australian Studies. 32 (4): 499–508. doi:10.1080/14443050802471400. S2CID 145138874.
- ^ Morris, Robyn. "Many Degrees of Dark and Light: Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo." In Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English, edited by T. Khoo and K. Louie, Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2005. pp 279-298.
- ^ Madsen, Deborah L. (2009). "The Exception that Proves the Rule? National Fear, Racial Loathing, Chinese Writing in "UnAustralia"". Antipodes. 23 (1): 17–22. JSTOR 41957750.
- ^ Giffard-Foret, Paul (2016). ""The root of all evil"? Transnational cosmopolitanism in the fiction of Dewi Anggraeni, Simone Lazaroo and Merlinda Bobis". Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 52 (5): 595–609. doi:10.1080/17449855.2016.1202561. S2CID 147915922.
- ^ "Simone Lazaroo, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing". profiles.murdoch.edu.au. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
External links edit
- "Simone Lazaroo". Jenny Darling and Associates. Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- Jacobs, Lyn. "Remembering Forgetting: Love-stories by Nicholas Jose, Simone Lazaroo and Hsu-ming Teo". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. Australian National University. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- "Simone Lazaroo". AustLit. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- Lazaroo, Simone at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia