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Thoraiya Dyer
View on WikipediaThoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer of fantasy, speculative and science fiction. As of June 2024[update], she has won five Aurealis Awards and four Ditmar Awards, each of the latter in different categories.[1]
Career
[edit]Dyer trained and worked as a veterinarian before publishing her first fantasy short stories in 2008.[2] Her work has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cosmos and Redstone Science Fiction and well as a number of anthologies.[1]
Dyer was joint winner of the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story for "Yowie",[3][4] winning that award again in 2011 for "Fruit of the Pipal Tree"[5][6] and in 2016 for "Where the Pelican Builds Her Next".[7][8] In 2012 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story for "The Wisdom of the Ants",[9] which also won the Ditmar Best Short Story in 2013.[10][11] She was awarded the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 2014 for "Wine, Women, and Stars".[12][13]
She won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent in 2011, having been shortlisted for that award the previous year.[14] Also in 2011, she won the Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette for The Company Articles of Edward Teach.[15]
Her 2017 fantasy novel, Crossroads of Canopy, won the 2018 Ditmar Award for Best Novel.[16][17] It was described in Kirkus Reviews as "an epic fantasy that builds an intriguing setting but never quite comes into focus".[18] In reviewing Dyer's second novel, Echoes of Understorey, Katharine Coldiron wrote that it was "a satisfying read, and a delirious second dive into a complete, absorbing fantasy universe".[19]
Selected works
[edit]- Titan's Forest Trilogy
- Crossroads of Canopy (2017)
- Echoes of Understorey (2018)
- Tides of the Titans (2019)
- Victory Citrus Is Sweet (ebook)(2022)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Thoraiya Dyer". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "Dyer, Thoraiya". Trove. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Yowie". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "2010 Aurealis Awards: winners announced". Books+Publishing. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Fruit of the Pipal Tree". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "2011 Aurealis Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Aurealis Awards 2016 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 18 April 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "2012 Aurealis Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "The Wisdom of Ants". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Lanagan wins Ditmar for best novel, Norma K Hemming Award". Books+Publishing. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Wine, Women, and Stars". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Aurealis Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Ditmar Awards - Best New Talent". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "The Company Articles of Edward Teach". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "Crossroads of Canopy". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Ditmar Awards 2018 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ Crossroads of Canopy. Kirkus Reviews. 15 November 2016.
- ^ Coldiron, Katharine (27 July 2018). "Katharine Coldiron Reviews Echoes of Understorey by Thoraiya Dyer". Locus Online. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
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