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Deb Kandelaars was born in South Australia's sunny Riverland and grew up in Adelaide’s north eastern suburbs. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Master of Arts - Creative Writing.

Deb writes with the aim of reflecting ordinary Australian life - the experience of growing up, nuances in relationships, the weight of the everyday – and is inspired by a line from the film Shadowlands: ‘We read to know we are not alone’.

'Memoirs of a Suburban Girl' (Wakefield Press, Nov 2011) based on Deb’s experiences as a young woman living with domestic violence, is her first novel. It won Deb a Longlines residential fellowship at Varuna, The Writers’ House, in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for an Unpublished Manus...more

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