Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry.^[1]

Robyn Cadwallader
Occupation	Novelist
Notable awards	2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner

In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.^[2] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.^[3]

Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008.^[4] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.^[5]

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children.^[5]

Bibliography

• Cadwallader, Robyn (2008), Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete : Archetypal, semiotic, and deconstructionist, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 9780773448407
• Cadwallader, Robyn; Friendly Street Poets (2010), I Painted Unafraid, Wakefield Press, ISBN 9781862548787^[6]
• Robyn Cadwallader, ed. (October 2015), We Are Better Than This : Essays addressing policies on asylum seekers, Foreword by Tim Winton, ATF Press (published 2015), ISBN 9781921511721^[7]
• Cadwallader, Robyn (2015), The Anchoress, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9780732299217
• Cadwallader, Robyn (2018), Book of Colours, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, ISBN 9781460752210^[8]

Awards and recognition

• 2011 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Short Story Award for "The Day for Travelling"^[9]
• 2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner for Book of Colours^[9]
• 2019 Voss Literary Prize, shortlisted for Book of Colours^[10]
• 2019 ACT Book of the Year award winner for Book of Colours^[11]
• 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize longlisted for The Fire and the Rose^[12]