The Great Fire (Hazzard novel)

The Great Fire

First edition
Author	Shirley Hazzard
Language	English
Publisher	Farrar Straus and Giroux (USA) Virago Press (UK)
Publication date	2003
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	278 pp
ISBN	0-374-16644-7
OCLC	52341650
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 21
LC Class	PR9619.3.H369 G74 2003
Preceded by	The Transit of Venus

The Great Fire (2003) is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction^[1] and a Miles Franklin literary award (2004). The novel was Hazzard's first since The Transit of Venus, published in 1980.