# Delia Falconer
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delia falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist best known for her novel The Service of Clouds. Her works have been nominated for several literary awards.
== Biography ==
Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers.
11. Fully Lit live: sound and fury as we talk podcasting in the pub
This special edition of Fully Lit Live was recorded at the Abercrombie Hotel in Sydney, on beautiful Gadigal land.
It was a night of celebration, conversation, and creative sparks, as we launched the podcast with a vibrant discussion on the power of audio as a medium for literary criticism - one w…
Delia Falconer examines Australia's sexiest and most gaudy city: Sydney
Broadcast date: Tuesday 15 November 2011
Delia Falconer on all things Sydney, and Gretel Killeen talks love and friendship
Broadcast date: Thursday 7 October 2010
24. Writing the Real: Fiction, Work and Witness with Gretchen Shirm and Andrew Pippos
Recorded live at the 2025 UTS Writers’ Festival, this episode of Fully Lit Live features novelists (and UTS writing alumni) Andrew Pippos and Gretchen Shirm in conversation with Delia Falconer.
In The Transformations, Pippos sets a love story inside a newsroom on the brink of digital collapse. What…
Fiona Kelly McGregor: The Trap + Debra Adelaide: When I Am Sixty-Four + Yann Martel: Son of Nobody (REVIEWERS: Hannah Kent and Tom Wright)
This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap.
BOOKS
Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picad…
Gretchen Shirm - Out of the Woods
In the year 2000, an Australian woman travels to The Hague to work as the secretary for an Australian judge. There, she sits through the trial of a former military man who has been charged with war crimes.
As the trial proceeds, she is confronted with two conflicting impulses: being deeply affecte…
‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery
This week on The ABR Podcast, we feature the winner of the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, ‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery. The young narrator of ‘C.Q.D.’ is on board the Carpathia in the year 1912. The ship is racing towards the Titanic after hearing its distress signal. Will it reach the Ti…
Musquito: the real story of a legendary colonial warrior
How do you tell the story of a "warrior" without flattening him into myth?
Associate Professor Delia Falconer talks with historian Dr Naomi Parry Duncan about her new biography of Musquito — a warrior born around Port Jackson who lived through the first shockwaves of British invasion, was exiled t…
Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
This week The Bookshelf revisits the Trojan War from the ground up in Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody, moves through friendship and loss in Debra Adelaide’s When I Am Sixty‑Four, and dives into queer Sydney in the 1940s with Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap.
BOOKS
Fiona Kelly McGregor, The Trap, Picad…
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