Shirley Hazzard, internationally acclaimed Australian author, dies at 85

Shirley Hazzard, the Australian-born author whose 1980 book "The Transit of Venus" brought her international acclaim, has died at the age of 85. Hazzard’s first book, Cliffs of Fall, was a collection of stories published in 1963, when she was 32. Her first novel, The Evening of the Holiday, was published in 1966, and followed three years later by The Bay of Noon, which was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker prize. Ten years later she published The Transit of Venus, her breakthrough novel which tracks the lives of two orphaned Australian-born sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, in the postwar world.
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