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The Stella Prize!

Wow, what a week!  The Museum of Modern Love won the 2017 Stella Prize last week. It was awarded in Melbourne at The Arts Centre. I cannot express how extraordinary this recognition is for a novel that took 11 years to complete. Here is a link to the transcript of my speech on the night, the speech […]

Stella Shortlist 2017 & The Museum of Modern Love

The Stella Prize was established in 2011 when a group of bold, brave women took the step of acknowledging that Australian women writers were being under-represented in the books reviewed and the prizes that were awarded. For example, in 2011, 70% of books reviewed in the Weekend Australian newspaper were written by men. And the […]

Australian Literary Society Medal longlist 2017

‘The Museum of Modern Love’ has been included on this extraordinary longlist of Australian literature. Thank you Association for the Study of Australian Literature! The Medal has a distinguished history and previous winners include Michelle de Krester, Gillian Mears, David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas. The ALS Gold Medal is presented annually by the Association for […]

Sydney Review of Books – by Peter Pierce

All her fiction presents challenges to the heart and to the inquiring mind.  Written by PETER PIERCE https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/the-museum-of-modern-love-heather-rose/ 17 February, 2017 The Mischievous Artistry of Heather Rose: The Museum of Modern Love AUSTRALIAN FICTION FICTION Heather Rose’s career as a novelist has been pursued with a calm daring. Her four adult novels are notable for their […]

The Stella Prize 2017

So the most remarkable thing happened. The Museum of Modern Love has been longlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize – the stellar award for women writers in Australia. This year the judges have focussed their attention on non-fiction and 9 formidable works of memoir, biography, history, social narrative and journalism have been longlisted. Plus three […]

5 favourite works of art – on RN Books & Arts Top Shelf

Michael Cathcart and Radio National’s Books & Arts have a lovely section called Top Shelf. In this 10 minute edition I’ve shared a few cherished memories across art, film, music, novels and a Mary Oliver poem  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/top-shelf:-heather-rose/8075752

Why falling in love with great literature matters …

The Mercury published an edited version of a speech I recently gave to The Friends School. If you have a budding (or languishing) reader, this might prove useful. The whole speech appears in a previous blog below. Happy reading.  This lovely image with thanks: http://thats-normal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/book-623163_1280.jpg

‘in a playful way this bold new novel by Heather Rose is an astute meditation’

Here is the review for The Sydney Morning Herald by the wonderful Louise Swinn for The Museum of Modern Love. Also written for The Age.