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Marion Halligan AM (1940–2024) was a novelist, short story writer, reviewer and essayist. Halligan’s third novel, Lovers’ Knots: A Hundred Year Novel (1992) won the Age Book of the Year Award and the Nita Kibble Award. Other novels by Marion Halligan: The Fog Garden (2001), The Point (2003), The Apricot Colonel.

Marion Halligan AM (1940–2024) was a novelist, short story writer, reviewer and essayist. Halligan’s third novel, Lovers’ Knots: A Hundred Year Novel (1992) won the Age Book of the Year Award and the Nita Kibble Award. Other novels by Marion Halligan: The Fog Garden (2001), The Point (2003), The Apricot Colonel.

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