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Heather Rose[] (born August 10, 1964) is an Australian author born in Tasmania. Her novels include White Heart, The Butterfly Man and The River Wife. Her career has spanned business, the arts and writing and she is one of Tasmania's best known authors and businesswomen.

Background

Heather Rose was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the 3rd of four children. She was educated at St Michaels Collegiate School and Hobart Matriculation College. By the age of sixteen she had a weekly column in the Hobart Mercury. She won the Tasmanian Short Story Prize in 1981. She left school in 1982 and travelled widely though Asia and Europe >. Returning to Australia in 1984 she became an advertising copywriter in Melbourne.

In 1996 she returned to Tasmania and established an advertising agency, Coo'ee Tasmania, with her husband, Creative Director and musician Rowan Smith. In 2004 she was named Telstra Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year. She was Chairman of the Coo'ee Network of agencies across Australasia from 2005 - 2007. In 2007 Coo'ee Tasmania partnered with Green Team USA in New York and Green Team Australia, Australia's first green advertising agency was born. In 2008 Heather was appointed Chairman of the Festival of Voices, Tasmania's leading winter arts festival. The Festival and Green Team Australia received the Tasmanian 2010 Australian Business Arts Foundation (ABAF) Award for SME's through a partnership created by Rose. She remains Chairman of Green Team Australia. Her business has won over 25 international creative awards. Rose is a Mentor in the Tasmanian Leaders Program training business people in leadership excellence. She has also mentored emerging novelists including Nick Gladewright.

Novels

Heather Rose is the author of three published novels. Her first novel White Heart, published in 1999 by Transworld, tells the story of Ambrose and Farley Willow, a brother and sister growing up in Tasmania. Ambrose as an adult becomes a Tasmanian tiger hunter while Farley becomes involved with Native American rituals in the mid-west of America. Rose's second novel The Butterfly Man published by UQP in 2005. It recounts the story of Lord Lucan[], the British Peer who disappeared from his family home in London after the murder of the family nanny. There has been no verified sighting of Lord Lucan since his disappearance in 1974. In The Butterfly Man Lucan has settled quietly in Tasmania after fleeing England and assumed the identity of Henry Kennedy. Lucan discovers, however, that the past is not so easily laid to rest. The Butterfly Man won the Davitt Award for Crime Fiction Novel of the Year in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award. It was also longlisted for the Impac Dublin Literary Award in 2007. Heather Rose is a recipient of the prestigious Eleanor Dark Fellowship in 2007 for her then unpublished manuscript of The River Wife. The River Wife was published in 2009 by Allen & Unwin and launched by Katherine Scholes[],. Set on the shores of Lake St Clair, in Tasmania's central highlands, the novel is a new mythology drawn from land and the rivers of this remote area. It has received significant acclaim from reviewers and readers where it has been hailed for the beauty of its storytelling. It was broadcast on Radio National in 2010.