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    Charalambous, John

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    John Charalambous was born and educated in Melbourne. He grew up in a culturally mixed family - Greek Cypriot on his father's side, Anglo-Australian on his mother's. Following an interest in painting, he obtained a teaching degree in fine arts from Melbourne State College. While teaching art in secondary schools he began to write fiction, at the same time studying literature and creative writing at Melbourne University. After spending time in Cyprus and Greece, he took up a teaching appointment in the central Victorian town of Wedderburn, where he remained for thirteen years, no longer as a teacher but running a small business. This experience of rural life became the basis for his first novel Furies, UQP, 2004, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book (South East Asia and South Pacific region).His second novel Silent Parts, UQP, 2006, explores a family's private myths about a WW1 soldier who didn't come home.John Charalambous now lives in north east Victoria near Glenrowan.;

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