Nikki Gemmell

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Nikki Gemmell (born 1966) is a best-selling Australian author. She resides in Sydney, Australia.

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Gemmell is the best-selling author of fourteen works of fiction and seven non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.[ citation needed ]

Gemmell was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, and attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay, Sydney, on a scholarship. She graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with a Masters in Writing and worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio and the BBC World Service. [1]

Her distinctive writing style, including her use of the second-person narrative, has gained her critical and popular acclaim. In France she has been described as a "female Jack Kerouac". [2] In 2007, the French literary magazine Lire included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believed would have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century. [3]

Her best-known work is the 2003 novel The Bride Stripped Bare , an explicit exploration of female sexuality, which was originally written and published anonymously. Gemmell was identified publicly as the author of The Bride Stripped Bare before publication. [4] The book went on to become a worldwide publishing sensation [5] and the best-selling book by an Australian author in 2003. [6] In the wake of the success of Fifty Shades of Grey , it reentered the fiction charts in the UK in the summer of 2012. Two follow-up novels complete The Bride Stripped Bare trilogy: With My Body and I Take You. In 2022 The Bride Stripped Bare was named as one of the 25 best Australian novels of the past 25 years [7]

She has also published two series of books for children, the Kensington Reptilarium and Coco Banjo series.

Gemmell's weekly columns for The Weekend Australian newspaper won the 2022 Walkley award for commentary, analysis, opinion and critique. [8]

In 2014 The Kensington Reptilarium was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award in the category of Book of the Year for Older Children. [9] In 1999 Cleave was shortlisted in the Fiction category of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. [10] Four books by Gemmell, Shiver, Cleave, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book of Rapture, made the longlist of "Favourite Australian Novels" as chosen by readers of the Australian Book Review . [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Healy, Madeline: Nikki Gemmell changes tact in The Book of Rapture, The Courier-Mail , 27 June 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
  2. ↑ Newsnight Review: Nikki Gemmell, BBC News , 10 March 2006.
  3. ↑ Lessing's royal flush, Sunday Tasmanian , 21 October 2007
  4. ↑ Interview transcript: Nikki Gemmell, Enough Rope with Andrew Denton , ABC TV, 28 July 2005.
  5. ↑ Nikki Gemmell Archived 22 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Melbourne Writers Festival, 2009
  6. ↑ Bookmarks by Jason Steger , The Age , 31 January 2004
  7. ↑ "The 25 best Australian novels of the last 25 years". 18 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Walkley Winners Archive".
  9. ↑ "2014 Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlists Announced". 29 April 2014. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Premier releases shortlist", The Courier-Mail , 22 September 1999
  11. ↑ "Favourite Australian Novels of the 21st Century", Australian Book Review , February 2010
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