Carol Lefevre
Carol Lefevre is the author of nine books including Bloomer, a lyrical celebration of the riches of ageing as well as a reckoning with its challenges.
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Carol Lefevre
Carol Lefevre holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, where she is a Visiting Research Fellow. Her first novel, Nights in the Asylum, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, won the 2008 Nita B Kibble Award for Women Writers, and the People’s Choice Award.
She has published short fiction, essays, and journalism, a children’s book, The Silver Moth, as well as a non-fiction book, Quiet City: walking in West Terrace Cemetery.
Murmurations, a novella in eight stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Fiction Prize in the 2022 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. Murmurations was followed by The Tower (2022) and Temperance (2023), and most recently Bloomer (2025), a memoir of ageing.
Creatively, she’s interested in the way life bleeds into art, and in the ways in which loss can be reshaped into something tangible and possibly precious. She’s interested in writing style, and the process by which it arises from a hidden place in a writer and settles indelibly into the marks they make on a page. Carol lives in Adelaide.
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The Art of Growing Older
DATE March 28 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
