{"title":"Suzanne Falkiner","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSuzanne Falkiner \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Falkiner grew up on a sheep station in central New South Wales and now lives in Sydney, where she divides her time between writing, reviewing, editing and occasional travel journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtensively travelled, Suzanne has lived in Paris, Italy, and New York, where she completed postgraduate short courses in Fiction, Non Fiction and Editing at Columbia University in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuzanne was a finalist in the Australian Vogel Literary Awards in 1980 and 1981, and was among the founding members of Redress Press in the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVisit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/suzannefalkiner.com\/\"\u003eSuzanne’s website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-imago-e-l-grant-watson-australia","title":"The Imago: E. L. 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