Clare Bowditch

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Clare Bowditch
Bowditch at the Great Escape music festival in 2006
Background information
Born	1975 (age 48–49) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Folk, rock, pop
Occupations	Musician actress author Allen & Unwin
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, pianist, drummer
Years active	1999–present
Website	www.clarebowditch.com

Clare Bowditch^[1] (born 1975) is an Australian musician, author, and occasional actress.

At the 2020 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) she won ‘Best New Australian Author’ for her best-selling 2019 memoir Your Own Kind of Girl.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, Bowditch won the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and was nominated for a Logie Award for her work on the TV series Offspring in 2012. She has toured with Gotye and Leonard Cohen, written for Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stone and Drum.