Honey Brown

Australian novelist

Honey Brown
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	2008–present
Notable works	Red Queen, Dark Horse
Notable awards	Aurealis Award, Davitt Award

Honey Brown is an Australian novelist.^[1]

Early life and education

Honey Brown grew up in Campbell Town, Tasmania.^[2]

She attended Campbell Town High School and Launceston College, Tasmania before moving to Victoria.^[2]

Career

Her first novel, Red Queen, was published by Penguin in 2008 and won the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel in 2009. With her subsequent novels she was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2011 for The Good Daughter and won the Davitt Award in 2014 for Dark Horse.

Personal life

In 2009 she was involved in a farming accident which left her partially paralysed and unable to walk.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

Red Queen (2008)
The Good Daughter (2010)
After the Darkness (2012)
Dark Horse (2013)
Through the Cracks (2014)
Six Degrees: The power of attraction connects us all (2015)

Awards and nominations

2009 winner, Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel – Red Queen
2009 highly commended, The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards – FAW Christina Stead Award – Red Queen
2009 finalist, Australian Shadows Award – Long Fiction – Red Queen
2011 longlisted, Miles Franklin Award – The Good Daughter^[3]
2011 shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award – The Good Daughter^[4]
2013 longlisted, Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – After the Darkness
2014 winner, Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – Dark Horse^[5]
2015 shortlisted, Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – Through the Cracks

References

^ "Austlit — Honey Brown". Austlit. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ""The Accidental Author" The Australian, 20 April 2013". Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award, The 2011 Longlist". The Trust Company. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
^ "Austlit — Barbara Jefferis Award (2009-2011)". Austlit. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing" by Stephen A Russell "The New Daily", 4 September 2014