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Award winning and much-loved Canberra writer Marion Halligan has died

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Marion Halligan reads a book in a chair
Award winning and much-loved Canberra writer Marion Halligan has died at the age of 83(Supplied: Jenny Sawer)

Award winning and much-loved Canberra writer Marion Halligan has died at the age of 83. 

Marion worked as a teacher and journalist before publishing her first short stories in the 1980s.

She wrote more than 20 books , was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and the Nita Kibble awards and won the ACT Book of the Year three times.  

Writer Nigel Featherstone spoke to us about Marion: from her legendary writers group The Canberra Seven, and her support of other writers, to his favourites among her many books, and their shared love of the semi-colon.   

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Canberra, Author, Celebrity Deaths, Grief
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