Kirsty Murray

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Kirsty Murray is an award-winning author of nineteen books for young people, including eleven novels. She has been a creative fellow of the State Library Victoria, an Asialink literature resident at the University of Madras, a member of the Bookwallah roving Indian writer’s festival, and a writer-in-residence at Himachal Pradesh University in India. Her YA novel, India Dark, set in Australia, India and South Asia, won a NSW Premier’s 2011 History Award. Kirsty also edited the groundbreaking YA anthology of Australian & Indian speculative fiction, Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean.

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