Shirley Hazzard

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January 30, 1931 in Australia

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Author of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard now holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States.

Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia. In 1947 she traveled through Southeast Asia with her parents.
Her diplomat father took her to Hong Kong, and then to New Zealand where her father was Australian Trade Commissioner. She travelled to Italy in 1956, and worked for a year in Naples. In 1963, Hazzard married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. As of 2006, she lives in New York City, frequently travelling to her Italian residence in Capri.

Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1980 for The Transit of Venus. In 2003 she won the National Book Award for The Great Fire.

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Books by Shirley Hazzard

Average rating: 3.50 · 2,472 ratings · 478 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Great Fire 3.32 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Transit of Venus 3.88 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Bay of Noon 3.75 avg rating — 128 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Greene on Capri: A Memoir 3.53 avg rating — 64 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel 3.55 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	My rating:
	People in Glass Houses: A Novel 3.46 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Defeat of an ideal: A study of the self-destruction of the United Nations 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	Countenance Of Truth: The United Nations And The Waldheim Case 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:

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“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

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“At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.”
― Shirley Hazzard

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“Sometimes,, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However, it required merely some slight attention on his part to restore all her apprehensions - for these extremes of feeling only existed within the compass of her love."

"In One's Own House”
― Shirley Hazzard, Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories

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