Anna Krien

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Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet.

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Career

Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including TheMonthly, The Age , The Big Issue , The Best Australian Essays, [1] Griffith Review , Voiceworks , Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused . [2]

Krien has written poetry for a number of years. Her poem, "The Last Broadcasters", won the 2008 Val Vallis Award and "Horses" was included in The Best Australian Poems 2010. [3]

In 2014 she became only the second woman to win the £25,000 (A$47,000) William Hill Sports Book of the Year award since its inception 1989. [4]

Krien has written two contributions to the Quarterly Essay — "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals" [5] and "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock". [6] In 2019 she joined the judging panel for the Horne Prize. [7] As of 2019 she was based in Melbourne, Victoria. [8]

Awards and recognition

Krien was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders. [9]

Publications

Nonfiction

Fiction

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References

  1. ↑ The best Australian essays 2015. Williamson, Geordie,, Smee, Sebastian., Crawford, Anwen., Tumarkin, Maria M., Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-, Wheatley, Nadia. Collingwood Vic, Australia. 2 November 2015. ISBN   978-1-86395-777-9. OCLC   913499733.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. 1 2 "Shortlist 2014 · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  3. ↑ The best Australian poems 2010. Adamson, Robert, 1943-. Melbourne. ISBN   978-1-921825-70-5. OCLC   891652170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ↑ Dugdale, John (27 November 2014). "Anna Krien's Night Games wins sports book of the year prize". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Krien, Anna. Us and them : on the importance of animals. Collingwood, Victoria. ISBN   978-1-921870-56-9. OCLC   893683030.
  6. ↑ Krien, Anna. (2017). Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye : Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock. Collingwood: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd. ISBN   978-1-925435-73-3. OCLC   992580413.
  7. ↑ "Lebeter wins Horne Prize 2019 for essay on climate change and biodiversity". Books+Publishing. 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  8. ↑ On, Thuy (28 September 2019). "The focused eye of journalist Anna Krien". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "Past Award Recipients". Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "True Stories: Writing History - Conference | National Library Of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 8 February 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Foray into sport's underbelly wins top award". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing". The New Daily. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  15. ↑ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 12 May 2020. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  16. ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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