Christine Balint
Novelist

Ophelia's Fan
Norton, 2004

The Salt Letters
Norton, 2001

Christine Balint was born to Hungarian immigrants in 1975. Since childhood she has known that she wanted to be a writer. As a teenager she won a number of prizes for her short stories and several of her poems were published. The Salt Letters was short-listed for the 1998 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 1998 Christine was awarded an Editorial Fellowship and a Mentorship Fellowship at Varuna Writers' Centre. She was awarded a Queen's Trust Scholoarship in 1999. In 2000 she was shortlisted in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists of the Year Award.