Heather Rose
Heather Rose | |
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| Born | Heather Rose 1964 (age 61–62) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Pen name | also wrote as Angelica Banks (author with Danielle Wood) for a series of children's novels published 2012 - 2016) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Notable awards | Stella Prize 2017 The Museum of Modern Love |
Heather Rose (born 1964) is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. She is best known for her novels A Great Act of Love (2025/ 2026),The Museum of Modern Love, which won the 2017 Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize, and Bruny (2019), which won Best General Fiction in the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards. In 2022 Rose published her memoir Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here. She has also worked in advertising, business, and the arts.