Novelist, who has died in New York, wrote The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire, and won the Miles Franklin prize and the National Book award
Shirley Hazzard, the Australian-born author whose 1980 book The Transit of Venus brought her international acclaim has died at the age of 85.
According to a report in the New York Times, Hazzard’s death at her home in Manhattan followed a struggle with dementia. The news comes in a sad week for Australian literary world, with the death of writer and broadcaster Anne Deveson on Monday, and her daughter, Georgia Blain, on Friday.
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