Susan Parisi
Susan Parisi | |
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| Born | 1958 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian-Australian |
| Genre | Horror fiction |
| Notable awards | Aurealis Award Horror division 2007 Blood of Dreams |
Susan Parisi (born 1958)[1] is a Canadian-Australian author of horror fiction. Her debut novel Blood of Dreams won the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel.[2]
Biography[edit]
Susan Parisi was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958.[1] As a teenager, she moved to Australia with her family because her father was on the run from the law.[3]
Parisi completed postgraduate studies in psychology and has been employed in occupational psychology and university administration.[3]
Currently residing in Sydney, Parisi is married to an Italian-Australian man.[3] She has a passion for Italian culture and frequently travels to Italy.[4]
Parisi is a dual Canadian-Australian citizen.[3]
Works[edit]
In 2007, Parisi's debut novel Blood of Dreams was released by Viking.[5] A murder-mystery set in 18th-century Venice during Carnevale, it involves a killer who stalks his victims' dreams and a woman who must confront her past in order to stop him.[6]
Blood of Dreams was awarded the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and was a short-list nominee for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.[7]
Parisi is working her second novel Mosaic, a conspiracy-thriller set in Rome and Palermo.[4]
Bibliography[edit]
- Blood of Dreams (2007)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "A Celebration of Women Writers: AUSTRALIA". digital.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/aurealis-1995-2014-complied-xlsx-sheet1-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b c d "Susan Parisi". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ a b Productions, Alessandro Sorbello (7 April 2008). "Susan Parisi". The Official Italian Week Celebrations. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ Austlit. "Blood of Dreams". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "Blood of Dreams | Penguin Books Australia". penguin.com.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "aurealis awards, previous years' results" (PDF). Aurealis Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
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