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Camilla Nelson

About Camilla -

Camilla Nelson is Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia. She is also a novelist whose work includes Perverse Acts, for which she was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and Crooked, which was shortlisted in the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards.

Articles by Camilla

2022 Stella Prize-winning book skewers cultural mythologies

Evelyn Araluen’s award-winning book Dropbear is a wild ride – a sizzling collection of poetry and prose that is both deeply funny and deadly serious.

Stella Prize 2020: a readers' guide to the contenders

The shortlist for this year’s Stella Prize includes books about courage, strength, compassion and love – all of which we need now, more than ever.

The books shortlisted for the Stella Prize are difficult to sum up, but they share an attitude that is daring.

Six books that shock, delve deeply and destroy pieties

Young people – how they think and feel, and how families, schools, clinics and courts fail them – are a recurring theme in the six surprising and daring books shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, writes Camilla Nelson.

Scrounging for money: how famous writers made a living

As writers of both fact and fiction find it increasing tough to make a living, Camilla Nelson looks at the strange and sometimes dangerous jobs taken on by the world’s great authors to support their craft.