Mireille Juchau
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Biography
Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author who was born and raised in Sydney New South Wales, where she currently lives.
Juchau was formerly the fiction editor of HEAT Magazine. She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1994, and a doctorate in Writing and Philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000. Juchau was Scholar in Writing at the University of Technology in 2010. She received the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in 2004.
Awards and nominations
- 2000 - shortlisted The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for Machines for Feeling
- 2002 - winner, Perishable Theatre International Women's Playwriting Competition
- 2008 - shortlisted Commonwealth Writers' Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book for Burning In
- 2008 - highly commended Barbara Jefferis Award for Burning In
- 2008 - shortlisted Nita Kibble Literary Award for Burning In
- 2008 - shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize for Burning In
- 2008 - shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction for Burning In
- 2015 - longlisted Notting Hill Editions International Essay Prize for The Most Holy Object in the House
- 2016 - winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards—The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for The World Without Us
- 2016 - shortlisted Stella Prize for The World Without Us
- 2016 - shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year for The World Without Us
- 2016 - longlisted Miles Franklin Award for The World Without Us
- 2016 - shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction for The World Without Us
- 2016 - Longlisted International Dublin Literary Award for The World Without Us
Juchau has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney; University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University. She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had several writing residencies at Varuna Writers Centre and Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.