Photo Miles Franklin Literary Award Martin Ollman
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Michelle de KretserMichelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Questions of Travel, received 14 honours, including winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award and her most recent novel, Life to Come, also won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
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13 September 2019 17.30 - 19.30 Festival Opening Michelle de Kretser In conversation with Ceridwen Dovey |