Mireille Juchau

Title:

Burning In (fiction, Giramondo 2007)

Mireille Juchau’s first novel Machines for Feeling was shortlisted for the 1999 Vogel/Australian Literary Award. In 2002 her play, White Gifts, won the Perishable Theatre International Women’s Playwriting Competition and was performed and published in the US. Known also for her arts essays and reviews, Juchau has received grants from the Ian Potter Foundation, Arts NSW and the Australia Council, and is a recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. Burning In has recently been published in French (Mercure de France/ Gallimard) and will published in Croatian in 2012.

Awards for Burning In:

Nominated for The Australia-Asia Literary Award  2008
Shortlisted Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2008
Shortlisted Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008
Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Award 2008
Shortlisted Nita B. Kibble Award 2008