Lit in Translation

Carrie Tiffany

Born 1965 · Australia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • Written in English

    Miles Franklin 2020 · Shortlist

    Exploded View

    Exploded View

    Carrie Tiffany · 54 when first published

    Novel · 192 pages · Coming of age, Family

    AI-generated summary:Late in the 1970s, on the outskirts of Perth, a girl who refuses to speak spends her days among car engines while a threatening new man in the household runs an illegal repair business behind the house.

  • Written in English

    Miles Franklin 2013 · Shortlist

    Mateship with Birds

    Mateship with Birds

    Carrie Tiffany · 47 when first published

    Novel · 224 pages · Love, Nature

    AI-generated summary:Near a small country town in the early 1950s, a lonely dairy farmer watches a family of kookaburras through his binoculars, while the single mother next door watches him.

  • Written in English

    Miles Franklin 2006 · Shortlist

    Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

    Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

    Carrie Tiffany · 40 when first published

    Novel · 256 pages · Historical, Love

    AI-generated summary:In 1930s Victoria, a sewing teacher on a government train that tours the countryside with farming advice marries a soil expert, and together they buy land in the dry Mallee.