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Julia Leigh

Julia Leigh's novel The Hunter was published to international acclaim and has been translated into six languages. In Australia she was named winner of the 2000 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year. In the UK the Observer named her 'one of 21 writers for the 21st century' and she won a Betty Trask Award; in the USA the novel was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times; in France she is the laureate of the 2001 Prix de L'Astrolabe. She was an inaugural participant in the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. She lives in Sydney.