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Biography
Dr George Haddad is an award-winning writer, artist and academic practising on Gadigal land. His novella, Populate and Perish, was the winner of the 2016 Viva La Novella competition and his short story Kátharsis was awarded the 2018 Neilma Sidney Prize. George’s novel, Losing Face, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Small Press Network’s Book of the Year, and The Readings Prize. In 2023 he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. He is a lecturer at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. George’s text, sound, performance and installation based art has been exhibited at Firstdraft, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, ReadingRoom and Metro Arts.
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Qualifications
Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing, University of Melbourne
Doctor of Creative Arts, Western Sydney University
Bachelor of Arts, Western Sydney University
Research keywords
- Creative Writing Practice
- Queer Writing
- Masculinities
- Suburbia
- Shame
- Contemporary Australian Literature
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The Writer's Desk: Place, Subject, Object
Haddad, G., Jun 2024Research output: Creative Works › Textual Works
Prizes
HDR Theses
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A changed man : masculinities and shame in suburban Australian fiction and Losing Face : a novel
Haddad, G. (Author), 2022Western Sydney University thesis: Doctoral thesis
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