Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author.

Early life and education

Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales. She is of Jewish heritage.[1]

She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1994 for her BA thesis, Tracings: Writing memory and the Holocaust.[2][3] She completed a doctorate in writing and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000, with her thesis Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience.[2][4]

Career

Juchau was the fiction editor of HEAT magazine for some time.[5]

She has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at UTS, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.[citation needed]

Recognition and awards

She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had several writing residencies at Varuna Writers Centre and Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.[citation needed]

Selected works

Novels

  • Machines for Feeling (2001)
  • Burning In (2007)
  • The World Without Us (2015)

Drama

  • White Gifts (2002)

References

  1. ^ "Mireille Juchau". AustLit. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b University of Queensland Press - Mireille Juchau
  3. ^ Juchau, Mireille, Tracings: Writing Memory and the Holocaust, retrieved 3 March 2023
  4. ^ Juchau, Mireille (2000), Machines for feeling : narrating autistic experience, University of Western Sydney, retrieved 3 March 2023
  5. ^ "Australian Society of Authors - Mireille Juchau". Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.


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