Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.

Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner and their son.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

• Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992)
• Momoko (1994)
• The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
• The Art of the Engine Driver (2001)
• The Gift of Speed (2004)
• The Time We Have Taken (2007)
• Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride]
• The Lost Life: a Novel (2009)
• Spirit of Progress (2011)
• A World of Other People (2013)
• Forever Young (2015)

Critical studies and reviews

• Allington, Patrick (September 2011). "Everyday profundity". Australian Book Review (334): 25–26.  Review of Spirit of Progress.
• Anderson, Don (April 2013). "Dove descending". Australian Book Review. 350: 20. Retrieved 2015-08-07.  Review of A world of other people.

Interviews

• Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007
• Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008
• Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008
• "Open Page with Steven Carroll". Australian Book Review (334): 68. September 2011. 

Awards

• 2002 — shorlisted Miles Franklin Award for The Art of the Engine Driver
• 2005 — shorlisted Miles Franklin Award for The Gift of Speed
• 2005 — shortlisted Prix Femina (France) Best Foreign Novel for The Art of the Engine Driver
• 2008 — shorlisted Miles Franklin Award for The Time We Have Taken
• 2008 — winner Commonwealth Writers' Prize South-East Asia and South Pacific region for The Time We Have Taken
• 2014 — joint winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards for A World of Other People

References

External links

• Works by Steven Carroll at Open Library