She completed a draft of a final novel, The Museum of Words which will be published by Scribe in 2017. Acclaimed as a novelist, short story writer and essayist who transformed the everyday into works of extraordinary beauty and clarity.'īlain wrote a regular column for The Saturday Paper about her experiences with brain cancer. Georgia Blain was just short of her 52nd birthday.

Her writing is superbly paced and structured, and she has a gift for conjuring beaches, bush, and the suburbs of Sydney and Adelaide. In all her books Blain ruminates on families, siblings, loss, death, marriages and partnerships, in prose of stunning clarity and penetrating insight. Novelist Charlotte Wood called Between a Wolf and a DogĪ novel of devastating clarity that traverses Blain's familiar terrain: the ordinary sadnesses in families, betrayal and forgiveness, the small, potent beauties of daily life that we allow to slip unnoticed through our fingers'. A diagnosis which mirrored the story of Hilary, one of the main characters in the novel. When editing Between a Wolf and a Dog in 2015 Blain was diagnosed with brain cancer. She later commented that without this relationship and guidance she may not have completed the novel. The draft of Closed for Winter 1996 earned her an Australian Society of Authors' mentorship with Rosie Scott. One of her most recent works Births, Deaths and Marriages, a memoir of her childhood, was short-listed for the 2009 Nita Kibble Literary Award. and wrote many articles for their Bulletin (ISSN 0311-2934) She worked as a journalist commencing work in 1990 as a lawyer with the Australian Copyright Council. 1978), Georgina Blain completed an arts degree at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney where she studied law at the University of Sydney. Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d.

The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain