Julia Leigh

Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970. She studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney. The Hunter, her début novel, has been published around the world and has won numerous awards, including a Betty Trask Award and the 2001 Prix de l'Astrolabe. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for a US National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the Meilleur Livre Etranger. Julia Leigh was chosen by the Observer as one of twenty-one writers to watch in the millennium, and the New York Times selected her book as a 'Notable Book of the Year'. Leigh's second book, Disquiet, won the 2009 bi-annual Encore Award.