Margo Lanagan





Margo Lanagan

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in Waratah, New South Wales, Australia
June 05, 1960

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Margo Lanagan, born in Waratah, New South Wales, is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.

Many of her books, including YA fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black Juice won two World Fantasy Awards. It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by HarperCollins in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story "Singing My Sister Down".

Her short story collection White Time, originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by HarperCollins in August 2006, after the success of Black Juice.


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My short story collection Yellowcake came out in the US this week, to some very nice starry reviews! "These are stories worth hungering for.Cut yourself a thick slice," said Cate Fricke in her review (click the "nice" link) while kind Sarah Potvin (click "very") said, "...if everyone wrote short stories of this caliber, they might be as popular as they should be. Lanagan has a true Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.71 · 16,653 ratings · 3,805 reviews · 56 distinct works · Similar authors
Tender Morsels
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 2,841 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
The Brides of Rollrock Island
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,222 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
Black Juice
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
Red Spikes
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
White Time
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
Yellowcake
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
Cracklescape
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012
The Best Thing
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
Touching Earth Lightly
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
Treasure Hunters Of Quentaris
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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“You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart. However sweet that other place was, it was not real. It was an artifact of your mam's imagination; it was a dream of hers and a desire; you could not have stayed there forever and called yourself alive. Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to. (357)”
Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels

“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.”
Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels

“She hardly knew what to do, it had been so long since such strong feelings had borne down on her. It was like carrying another creature inside her, and nothing so benign and natural as a baby. Undamped, untamed, the pain and exultation of her attachment to them blew through Liga like a storm-wind carrying sharp leaves and struggling birds. How long she had known her daughters, and how well, and in what extraordinary vividness and detail! How blithely she had done the work of rearing them - it seemed to her now that she had had cause for towering, disabling anxieties about them; that what had seemed little plaints and sorrows in their childhoods were in fact off-drawings from much greater tragedies, from which she had tried to keep them but could not. And the joys she had had of them, too, their embraces and laughter - it was all too intense to be endured, this connection with them, which was a miniature of the connection with the forces that drove planet and season - the relentlessness of them, the randomness, the susceptibility to glory, to accident, to disaster. How soft had been her life in that other place, how safe and mild! And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too; where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.”
Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels

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