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Evelyn Juers was born in Germany, moved to Australia in 1960, and has lived in Hamburg, Sydney, London and Geneva. She has a PhD from University of Essex, UK, on the Brontës and the practice of biography. As an essayist, and an art and literary critic, she has contributed to a wide range of Australian and international publications. With Ivor Indyk she is co-founder and publisher of the literary magazine Heat and Giramondo Books. Her collective biography, House of Exile (2008), won the 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for non-fiction. The book tells the story of lives in exile: of the German writer and anti-fascist activist Heinrich Mann and his wife Nelly Kroeger-Mann, and their family and wider circles, including Heinrich’s brother Thomas Mann and sister Carla Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, James Joyce, Egon Kisch, Else Lasker-Schüler, Joseph Roth, Kurt Tucholsky, Jakob Wassermann, Virginia Woolf, among others. House of Exile has been described as “scintillating and rather magical and a triumph” (TLS, 22.4.09).