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Kirsten Tranter
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Kirsten Tranter

Kirsten Tranter grew up in Sydney and studied English and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. She lived in New York between 1998 and 2006, where she completed a PhD in English on Renaissance poetry at Rutgers University. She now lives in Sydney... Read full bio

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A. This too will pass.
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My life in 8 words: "Sydney writer, mother, reader."
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A Common Loss will be released on March 27, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. This too will pass. Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. Today, it's Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan. Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division. I Don't Want To Get Over You by The Magnetic Fields. Aretha, Sing One for Me by George Jackson, sung by Cat Power. Ariel's song Full Fathom Five in The Tempest. Q. With whom in history do you most identify? A. Anyone who has lost a computer due to drinks falling on it. Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. The feeling of being only a few steps away from a treasured destination, about to arrive. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. Happy being myself. Possibly a cat. They seem happy to be cats. Learn more about Kirsten Tranter

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Arts Hub, February 7, 2012
...Brooks and Helen Garner. I mean younger authors including Gail Jones, Heather Rose, Charlotte Wood, Kalinda Ashton and Kirsten Tranter - all talented writers.” For the moment, bookshops, teachers, librarians and readers from all corners of Australia...
The Australian, February 3, 2012
ONE News, January 30, 2012
...novel, but Tranter skilfully delivers a neatly layered story around the complexities of friendship. A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter RRP: $39.99 Available: Now Publisher: Harper Collins NZ...
The Blurb Magazine, January 26, 2012
...Kirsten Tranter has the kind of literary pedigree that can be both a blessing and a curse: as the daughter of poet John Tranter and literary agent Lyn Tranter, her first...
West Australian, January 24, 2012
...that seemed important to my life, everything I aspired to."So says Elliot, the narrator of Sydney author Kirsten Tranter's second novel, A Common Loss. In other words, this isn't Donna Tartt's A Secret History. This isn't Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of...
West Australian, January 23, 2012
...that seemed important to my life, everything I aspired to."So says Elliot, the narrator of Sydney author Kirsten Tranter's second novel, A Common Loss. In other words, this isn't Donna Tartt's A Secret History. This isn't Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of...
WA Today, January 14, 2012
...Thanks to hugely respected people such as Naipaul, literary sexism has become OK again. As the Australian writer Kirsten Tranter has said: ?It's become possible for respected critics to openly admit ? not just when they're drunk at a party but in public,...
The Drum Opinion, September 21, 2011
...Find More Stories 22 September 2011 Do Australian women need a literary leg up? 4 Comments Nicolle Flint It seems 'women's issues' are all the rage at the moment: from sex in the boardroom (Arndt) to sex in the bedroom (Albrechtsen, Jackman and Gemmell),...
The Word » The Word – According To Me, June 5, 2011
...@danielirussell M J Scott – @melscott Yolanda Sfetsos – @yolandasfetsos Benjamin Solah – @benjaminsolah Cat Sparks – @catsparx Kirsten Tranter – @ktranter Kaaron Warren – @KaaronWarren Tehani Wessley – @editormum75 Charlotte Wood –...
LiteraryMinded, May 12, 2011
...steering committee (including novelist and publisher Sophie Cunningham, critic and former Miles Franklin judge Kerryn Goldsworthy and novelist Kirsten Tranter) feel the move is unfortunately, necessary, due to the unequal recognition of books by women...