Felicity Castagna

Felicity Castagna is an Australian writer. She won the young adult fiction prize at the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for her book, The Incredible Here and Now and the 2022 Writing for Young Adults Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for her book, Girls in Boys' Cars.

Early life and education Castagna was born in Australia, but travelled with her family and lived in North America and Asia. She earned a BA at the University of Sydney, followed by a GradDipEd at the University of New England. In 2015 she graduated from Western Sydney University with a PhD for her thesis "Space, anxiety and the politics of belonging in suburban Australia".

Career Castagna's career began as an English teacher. In 2014 it was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, for the Writing for Young Adults prize at the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and for the Young Adult Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Young Adult Fiction prize.

In 2018 her second novel, No More Boats, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Voss Literary Prize and the NSW Multicultural Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. '' and the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award at the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the 2022 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers and for the 2022 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Works

Novels

Short story collection

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