Yvette Walker

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Yvette Walker is an LGBTQIA Australian writer of Irish ancestry. She moved to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2016 and currently resides in Whanganui. Her short story, ‘Dear Reader,’ won the 2003 HQ Magazine National Short Story Competition. Yvette has a BA (Honours) and a PhD from Curtin University. She was a writing fellow at Varuna, the Writers House, in 2009 and again in 2011. 

 

Her debut novel, Letters to the End of Love (UQP, 2013) won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (WA Emerging Writer) and was shortlisted for the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Glenda Adams Award for New Writing). Yvette’s short fiction has been published in Review of Australian Fiction, The Nightwatchman and the YA Own Voice anthology, Meet Me at the Intersection (Fremantle Press 2018). Yvette wrote a short personal essay which was included in the VUP anthology Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety (October 2018).
 

She was a writing fellow at Micheal King Writers Centre in 2019 where she worked on on her second novel. This novel is broadly about women working in early Hollywood, while focusing specifically on the life of actor, director and producer Alla Nazimova (1880-1945).

 

Genre:

  • Academic Writing
  • Freelance Writing
  • Novelist
  • Public Speaking
  • Research
  • Short Story Writing

Skills:

  • Adult Fiction

Branch:

Central Districts

Location:

Whanganui

Publications:

Letters to the End of Love

University of Queensland Press 2013. 

THREE STORIES, THREE SECRETS, THREE MARRIAGES.

In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness.

On Australia's west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship.

In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes to the love of his life, a German artist he lived with in Vienna during the 1930s.

The simple domestic lives of these three couples are set against conversations about intimacy, art, war and loss. Told in a series of unforgettable letters, this is a novel about love and what it means when it might be coming to an end.

WINNER West Australian Book Awards. Emerging Writer 2014.

SHORTLISTED New South Wales Book Awards. Glenda Adams Award 2014. 
 

Listed in Sydney Morning Herald's "Australian writers pick the best books of 2014."