After Darkness

Author(s): Christine Piper

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The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war.While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia.

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Winner of Australian / Vogel Literary Award 2014.

Christine Piper's short fiction has been published in Seizure, SWAMP and Things That Are Found In Trees and Other Stories. She was the 2013 Alice Hayes writing fellow at Ragdale in the United States. Christine has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote a version of this novel as part of her doctoral degree. She has also worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than a decade. Both in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, Christine moved to Australia when she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her husband. Christine is also the 2014 recipient of the ABR Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Prize 2014. After Darkness is Christine Piper's first novel. She was also shortlisted for the Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014.

General Fields

  • : 9781760113117
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : November 2014
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : Australia
  • : February 2015
  • : books

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  • : Christine Piper
  • : Paperback
  • : 215
  • : English
  • : 304