Georgia Blain
| Georgia Blain | |
|---|---|
| Born | Georgia Frances Elise Blain 12 December 1964 Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 9 December 2016 (aged 51) Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist Journalist, author |
| Nationality | Australian |
Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 1964 – 9 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer.
Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), Georgina Blain completed an arts degree at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney where she studied law at the University of Sydney. She worked as a journalist commencing work in 1990 as a lawyer with the Australian Copyright Council. and wrote many articles for their Bulletin (ISSN 0311-2934)
Her first novel was Closed for Winter. One of her most recent works Births, Deaths and Marriages, a memoir of her childhood, was short-listed for the 2009 Nita Kibble Literary Award.
The draft of Closed for Winter 1996 earned her an Australian Society of Authors' mentorship with Rosie Scott. She later commented that without this relationship and guidance she may not have completed the novel.
When editing Between a Wolf and a Dog in 2015 Blain was diagnosed with brain cancer. A diagnosis which mirrored the story of the lead character, Scott in the novel.
Novelist Charlotte Wood called Between a Wolf and a Dog
a novel of devastating clarity that traverses Blain's familiar terrain: the ordinary sadnesses in families, betrayal and forgiveness, the small, potent beauties of daily life that we allow to slip unnoticed through our fingers". In all her books Blain ruminates on families, siblings, loss, death, marriages and partnerships, in prose of stunning clarity and penetrating insight. Her writing is superbly paced and structured, and she has a gift for conjuring beaches, bush, and the suburbs of Sydney and Adelaide.
Georgia Blain was just short of her 52nd birthday. She was, "... Acclaimed as a novelist, short story writer and essayist who transformed the everyday into works of extraordinary beauty and clarity."
Blain wrote a regular column for The Saturday Paper about her experiences with brain cancer.
She completed a draft of a final novel, The Museum of Words which will be published by Scribe in 2017.
1999 named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists
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