Carolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, feature writer, novelist and academic.
Career
Avieson has a PhD and a Master of Philosophy from Macquarie University, as well as an Associate Diploma of Journalism from RMIT University. In 2008–2009 she worked as a media consultant to newspaper Bhutan Observer, partly funded by the United Nations Development Program and was a consultant to Journalists Without Borders, Asia Pacific Desk.
Avieson has published three novels, a novella and travel memoir; and been translated into Japanese, German and Thai. She is the recipient of two Ned Kelly Awards. In the 1990s she was editorial director of mass market women's magazines Woman's Day and New Idea. She is a senior lecturer in journalism and media at the University of Sydney.
Awards
2002 – Ned Kelly Awards – winner of the Best First Novel and Reader's Vote, for Apartment 255 2003 – shortlisted for Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards – Best Novel for The Affair 2004 – shortlisted for Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards – Best Novel for The Wrong Door 2011 – Dean's HDR Award 2013 – Vice Chancellor's Commendation for PhD thesis
Bibliography
Novels
Apartment 255 (2002) The Affair (2003) Review The Wrong Door (2004) Review Once You Know (2005)
Travel writing
Baby in a Backpack Through Bhutan (2004) Review
The Dragon Finds Its Voice (2013)
Documentary writing
A Story from Bhutan: The Making of "Travellers & Magicians" (2004)
Personal life
Avieson's partner is the film producer Mal Watson, who made The Cup and Travellers & Magicians, with writer/director Khyentse Norbu. Avieson and Watson have a daughter, Kathryn, who was the baby in the travel book Baby in a Backpack to Bhutan. They live in Sydney. Avieson's father was the late Associate Professor John Avieson, one of Australia's first journalism academics, who authored several books, including Applied Journalism in Australia and Editing Australian Newspapers.
References
External links
Bunty Avieson website
Ned Kelly Awards
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian journalists Australian women novelists Australian travel writers Australian crime fiction writers Women travel writers Ned Kelly Award winners 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian women writers Women mystery writers Macquarie University alumni RMIT University alumni Academic staff of the University of Sydney