to have had dementia. Works Novels The Evening of the Holiday (1966) The Bay of Noon (1970), shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize The Transit of Venus (1980), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction The Great Fire (2003), winner of the National Book Award for fiction and the Miles Franklin Award Short story collections Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963) People in Glass Houses (1967) Non-fiction Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-destruction of the United Nations (1973) Coming of Age in Australia (1985) Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case (1990) Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000) The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples (2008) (with Francis Steegmuller) We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays (2016) Literatur Brigitta Olubas: Shirley Hazzard : a writing life, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022, References Further reading Birgitta Olubas: Shirley Hazzard : a writing life, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022, External links Shirley Hazzard's profile at the British Council website Shirley Hazzard's profile at Virago Press Radio interview on KZSU, Stanford University Geoff Dyer, "Written in the stars", The New Statesman, 28 June 2004 Brigitta Olubas, "Shirley Hazzard's Australia: Belated Reading and Cultural Mobility", Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Finding aid to Shirley Hazzard papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 1931 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American foreign policy writers American memoirists American women novelists American women short story writers American people of Scottish descent American people of Welsh descent Australian memoirists Australian women short story writers Australian women novelists Australian people of Scottish descent Australian people of Welsh descent Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Capri, Campania National Book Award winners O. Henry Award winners Miles Franklin Award winners Writers from Sydney 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American women memoirists 20th-century Australian women