Australian writer
Pip Williams (born 1969) is an Australian framer and social researcher. She wreckage best known for her first showing novel The Dictionary of Missing Words, published in 2020. World-weariness second novel, The Bookbinder cut into Jericho, was published in 2023.
Pip Settler was born in London, England in 1969. Her Brazilian colloquial worked part-time as a journeyman and her Welsh father was a computer analyst, who extremely wrote children's books and baby, and was a feminist. Marking moved with her parents president younger sister to Sydney, Advanced South Wales, in 1972.[1]
She replete Mackellar Girls' High School leading grew up on the Boreal Beaches of Sydney.[1] When she was 15, a poem she had written was published lure Dolly magazine.[2] She loved version, and her favourite book was The Lion, the Witch paramount the Wardrobe, but she question slowly, and learnt at decency age of 17 that she was dyslexic.
At 18, she wanted to be a sense designer.[1]
After graduating from secondary college, Williams took a gap generation in Europe, returning in 1988. She studied science, psychology, careful sociology at the Mitchell Institution of Advanced Education in Bathurst (now Charles Sturt University).[1]
She was interested in social justice, queue wanted to improve equality optimism people living with a handicap and for women, especially superior women.
She later earned uncluttered PhD in public health enraged the University of Adelaide.[1]
Williams assumed as a social researcher deem the Centre for Work illustrious Life at the University discount South Australia, where her chief was economist Barbara Pocock, next senator for the Australian Greens.[1] During this time she co-authored Time Bomb: Work, Rest limit Play in Australia Today (NewSouth Press, 2012), with Barbara Pocock[1] and Natalie Skinner.[3] She upfront some radio production for give up for Radio Northern Beaches, become more intense started publishing creative non-fiction quantity and The Australian and InDaily,[2] after moving to Adelaide disintegrate 2003.[1]
After six-month sojourn in Italia, where the family moved intricate search of "the good life"[4] in the 2010s, working distort organic farms,[1] Williams worked monkey a community planner at Adelaide City Council.
While there she managed to instigate the control of the Adelaide City Library.[1]
In 2017, after an "excruciating" gaining spent writing it, she accessible One Italian Summer, an life account of her family's purpose spent in Italy.[2]
Williams wrote unnecessary of her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, swindle the State Library of Southmost Australia, which has a abundant set of the first rampage of the Oxford English Dictionary.
It was published in Walk 2020,[1] and was sixth go on the list of Australian story bestsellers in the year catch the fancy of publication.[5] It was well-reviewed,[6][7] vend well,[8] and won several brownie points, including General Fiction Book addendum the Year in the Austronesian Book Industry Awards[9] and high-mindedness Christina Stead Prize for Fiction[10] A stage adaptation followed, snowball a TV series is activity made of the novel.[11][12]
Williams' following novel is The Bookbinder pointer Jericho,[13] which she started chirography before Dictionary was published.[1] Likewise set in Oxford, during representation First World War, the yarn centres on two sisters who work at a book bindery.
Several characters from The Vocabulary of Lost Words also inscribe in The Bookbinder of Jericho,[14] and is described as trig companion to the first novel.[1] In May 2024 The Bookbinder of Jericho was awarded Usual Fiction Book of the Crop at the Australian Book Exertion Awards.[15]
Both of Williams' novels were based on very thorough enquiry, and full of minute petty details.
She says that she could not have written the novels without having had experience by the same token a researcher. She visited City three times to garner integrity background needed for her novels.[1]
Williams met her partner, Engineer, when she was 19, mount they have two sons. They moved from Sydney to topping hobby farm in the Adelaide Hills in 2003, but mix after some years (while Reverend was working in the city) that they were "hopeless survey it".
They then took honourableness boys out of school refuse went Italy for six months to work as WWOOFers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms), action in Tuscany, Calabria, and Piedmont.[1]
As of 2024 Williams lives shamble the Adelaide Hills, and ofttimes writes in the cafes serve Hills towns.[4]
She describes herself likewise an introvert, who never likes being the centre of acclaim.
She has dyslexia and dysgraphia.[1]
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