Alice Nelson is an Australian writer. Her first novel, The Last Sky, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, won the T.A.G. Hungerford Award and was shortlisted for the Australian Society of Authors’ Barbara Jefferis Award. She was named Best Young Australian Novelist of 2009 in the Sydney Morning Herald’s national awards program. Alice's new novel, The Children's House, will be published by Knopf Australia on 1 October 2018.AwardsSydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year (Winner 2009)Barbara Jefferis Award for Literature (Shortlisted 2009)T.A.G. Hungerford Award (Winner 2006)The Australian / Vogel Literary Award (Shortlisted 2004)
