Fiona Capp

Fiona Capp is a fine new voice in Australian fiction - and an ex-surfer, who has a deep connection to the coastline about which she writes. 

Fiona Capp is an acclaimed novelist whose work includes Night Surfing and Last of the Sane Days, and a memoir, That Oceanic Feeling, which explores the lure of the sea and her love affair with surfing.  Her work is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin.

Capp's first published work was an extension of her PhD studies, called Writers Defiled: Security Service Surveillance of Australian Authors and Intellectuals, 1920 - 1960 (Penguin, Australia, 1993). This work of academic analysis and historical research was shortlisted for the FAW Australian Unity prize.

Her second publication was the novel Night Surfing (Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1996), which was shortlisted for Australia's Kibble Awards for Women Writers and for France's Toulon Bookfair Awards, and has been translated into French. Night Surfing is a novel about fear and the overcoming of it, about love and learning to give into it, and about the power of the imagination.

A novel about philosophy, pain and the strange powers of love, Last of the Sane Days (Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1999) was shortlisted for Australian newspaper The Age's Book of Year Award and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It has also been published in France.

In 2003 Capp published a memoir about the sea, That Oceanic Feeling (Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2003), which won the Kibble Award for Women Writers (Life Writing category) and the Australians Travelling Abroad Travel Writing Prize.

Agent: Jenny Darling & Associates
http://www.jd-associates.com.au/