Reilly, Paddy O

Paddy O'Reilly is a multi-award winning writer of fiction and screenplays. Her first novel, The Factory, was noted as one of the best books of 2005 in Australian Book Review. She has won The Age and other national short story prizes. Her short stories have been published widely in literary magazines including Meanjin, Southerly, Westerly and Island, and in anthologies such as Best Australian Stories 2006 and Best Australian Short Stories 2004. Paddy lives in Melbourne, and spent several years living in Japan working as a copywriter and translator.;