Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.

His 2001 novel The Art of the Engine Driver was inspired by a dream taking him back to his childhood in Glenroy in the fifties.

Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer Fiona Capp, and their son. As of 2019, he also writes the non-fiction book review column for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

  • Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992)
  • Momoko (1994)
  • The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
  • The Lovers' Room (2007) [revised version of Momoko]
  • Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride], also published as The Last Venetian
  • O (2021)
  • Death Of A Foreign Gentleman (2024)

Glenroy series

The Eliot quartet

Critical studies and reviews

  • Dooley, Gillian (November 2008). (PDF). Transnational Literature. 1 (1).
  • Allington, Patrick (September 2011). "Everyday profundity". Australian Book Review (334): 25–26. Review of Spirit of Progress.
  • Anderson, Don (April 2013). . Australian Book Review. 350: 20. Review of A world of other people.

Interviews

  • Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007
  • Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008
  • Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008
  • "Open Page with Steven Carroll". Australian Book Review (334): 68. September 2011.
  • Gillian Dooley, "Reinventing Lives: A Conversation with Steven Carroll" in "Writers in Conversation", February 2019

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