The Great Fire

The Great Fire

Shirley Hazzard

Published by Virago

2004

Longlisted

Author Biography

Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931. She has lived in Hong Kong, New Zealand and New York where she worked for the United Nations. She is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy Award and the O. Henry Short Story Award. She divides her time between New York and Napoli.

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