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Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre critic for The Sunday Age. He has recently given up his lecturing post at RMIT to write full time and lives in Brunswick, Victoria.

His novels The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed were both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2008 The Time We Have Taken won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, South–East Asia and South Pacific region as well as the 2008 Miles Franklin Award, Australia's...

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The Time We Have Taken The Time We Have Taken
'That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment...
The Gift of Speed The Gift of Speed
In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen,...
The Time We Have Taken The Time We Have Taken
'That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment...

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