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Michelle de Kretser

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Ethnicity
  
Sri Lankan

Role
  
Novelist

Name
  
Michelle Kretser


Partner
  
Chris Andrews

Citizenship
  
Australian

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Born
  
11 November 1957 (age 66) Colombo, Ceylon (
1957-11-11
)

Alma mater
  
University of Melbourne

Notable awards
  
Miles Franklin Award (2013)

Awards
  
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

Books
  
Questions of Travel, The Lost Dog, The Hamilton Case, The rose grower, Springtime: A Ghost Story

Education
  
University of Melbourne

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Michelle de Kretser (born 11 November 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14.

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Education and literary career

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De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, and in Melbourne and Paris.

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She worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, The Rose Grower. Her second novel, published in 2003, The Hamilton Case was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, The Lost Dog, was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review. Her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal), and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 Dublin Impac Literary Award.

Awards

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  • 2004 – Encore Prize for The Hamilton Case
  • 2004 – Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South-East Asia and the Pacific for The Hamilton Case
  • 2005 – Tasmania Pacific Award for The Hamilton Case
  • 2007 – Liberatur Award for The Hamilton Case
  • 2008 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards – Christina Stead Prize for fiction and Book of the Year for The Lost Dog
  • 2008 – ALS Gold Medal for The Lost Dog
  • 2013 – Miles Franklin Award for Questions of Travel
  • 2013 – ALS Gold Medal for Questions of Travel
  • 2013 – Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction Prize for Questions of Travel
  • 2013 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Fiction Prize and Premier's Prize for Questions of Travel
  • 2014 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards – Christina Stead Prize for fiction and Book of the Year for Questions of Travel
  • Works

  • The Rose Grower (1999)
  • The Hamilton Case (2003)
  • The Lost Dog (2007)
  • Questions of Travel (2012)
  • Springtime (2014)
  • References

    Michelle de Kretser Wikipedia