Tegan Bennett Daylight
| Tegan Bennett Daylight | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Tegan Bennett Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Author, Teacher and Critic |
| Home town | Blue Mountains New South Wales |
| Spouse(s) | Russell Daylight |
| Children | Alice and Patrick Daylight |
| Website | https://teganbennettdaylight.com/ |
Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories.
She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006). Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Her latest book, the story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015.
Career
Daylight is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories.
Novels
- What Falls Away (2001)
- Safety (2006)
- Six Bedrooms (2015)
Awards and Acclamations
- The Stella Interview - The Stella Price (2016)
- Stella Prize Shortlist (2016)
- The Saturday Paper's Books of the Year (2015)
Personal Life
When Bennett Daylight is not writing she works as an English lecturer at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales. Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick.
External links
- www.teganbennettdaylight.com - Author website
- Safety - Tegan Bennett Daylight - at Random House
- Sydney Morning Herald's review of Safety
- Bulletin Book Reviews' review of Safety