Thea Welsh

Thea Welsh

First published in 1990, The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins won the NBC Banjo Award for Fiction that same year and the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book in the South-East Asia and South Pacific region in 1991. Thea Welsh’s other works include the novels Welcome Back (1996), The President’s Wife (2010), and the delightful The Cat Who Looked at the Sky (2003), a memoir of shared cat ‘ownership’.