Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.
His 2001 novel The Art of the Engine Driver was inspired by a dream taking him back to his childhood in Glenroy in the fifties.
Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer Fiona Capp, and their son. As of 2019, he also writes the non-fiction book review column for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Awards and nominations
2002: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, The Art of the Engine Driver 2005: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, The Gift of Speed 2005: Prix Femina (France), Shortlisted for Best Foreign Novel, The Art of the Engine Driver 2008: Miles Franklin Award, Winner, The Time We Have Taken 2008: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region, Winner, The Time We Have Taken 2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Joint Winner for Fiction, A World of Other People 2015: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Shortlisted, Forever Young 2016: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Shortlisted for Fiction, Forever Young 2018: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Shortlisted, A New England Affair 2025: International Dublin Literary Award, Longlisted, Death of a Foreign Gentleman
Bibliography
Novels Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992) Momoko (1994) The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998) The Lovers' Room (2007) [revised version of Momoko] Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride], also published as The Last Venetian O (2021) Death Of A Foreign Gentleman (2024)
Glenroy series The Art of the Engine Driver (2001) The Gift of Speed (2004) The Time We Have Taken (2007) Spirit of Progress (2011) Forever Young (2015) The Year of the Beast (2019)
The Eliot quartet The Lost Life (2009) A World of Other People (2013) A New England Affair (2017) Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight (2022)
Critical studies and reviews
Review of Spirit of Progress. Review of A world of other people.
Interviews Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007 Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008 Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008
Gillian Dooley, "Reinventing Lives: A Conversation with Steven Carroll" in "Writers in Conversation", February 2019
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