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Interview in the Tele

Posted on January 2, 2012

I chatted with Nick Perry from AAP about second novel nerves, Donna Tartt, and writing about friendship: read the profile here.

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Geordie Williamson reviews A Common Loss in The Australian…

Posted on December 30, 2011

… and delivers a pretty fantastic Christmas present. “The excitement of concealment and exposure – the bread and butter of genre thrills – is not all that holds the reader,

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Mark Rubbo picks A Common Loss as one of the best of 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011

In his list of Books of the Year, the man behind the outstanding Readings bookshops writes in The Australian that “Kirsten Tranter’s second novel A Common Loss is a beauty…

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Interview in Readings newsletter

Posted on December 20, 2011

On writing Vegas, noir, and the complex dynamics of friendship: an interview in the newsletter of the awesome Readings Bookshop. There’s a review from Readings’ Annie Condon here as well.

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Recent praise for The Legacy in the Australian Press

Posted on February 17, 2010

Ingrid’s New York life unravels in a satisfying mystery, yet The Legacy is much more sophisticated than a typical genre novel. Tranter’s characters are well-written, her prose sophisticated and rich

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About Me

I’ve published three novels, most recently Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Prize. I grew up in Sydney and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My columns, reviews and essays appear regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald and other publications. I am a founder of The Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing, have a PhD in English from Rutgers University and have taught creative writing and literary studies at University of California, Berkeley and UTS, Sydney.

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