Amra Pajalić is an award-winning Australian author. Her latest book is a short story collection The Cuckoo’s Song (Pishukin Press). Her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her debut novel The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award. She is co-editor of the anthology Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014) which was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards. Her short stories and non-fiction articles and essays have been published in anthologies, journals and shortlisted in writing competitions. She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University. Amra writes romance as Mae Archer.
www.amrapajalic.com
www.amrapajalic.com
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Fikret Pajalic came to Melbourne as a refugee, learnt English in his mid-twenties and started writing years later. He has won and placed in competitions, published in anthologies and literary magazines. His fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Etchings, Sleepers, Antipodes, The Big Issue, Hotel Amerika, Wisconsin Review, The Minnesota Review, Fjords Review, Sheepshead Review, Bop Dead City, Structo, Paper and Ink, JAAM and elsewhere. For a full list of his publication achievements and to read samples of his work view his Literary CV.
In 2014 he was awarded a Creative Victoria grant, and in 2015 an Australia Council grant for the development of his literary manuscript ‘Complication’ and 2016 from Brimbank City Council for the development of chapbook . He is married to author Amra Pajalic and they live in Melbourne's western suburbs with their daughter. www.fikretpajalic.com |