Kristina Olsson

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Kristina Olsson
Born1956
OccupationNovelist, journalist, teacher
NationalityAustralian
GenreGeneral fiction and non fiction
Website
www.kristinaolsson.net

Kristina Olsson (born 1956) is an Australian writer, journalist and teacher. She is a recipient of the Barbara Jefferis Award, Queensland Literary Award, and Nita Kibble Literary Award.

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Early life

Kristina Olsson was raised in Brisbane, Australia of Swedish and Australian heritage. [1]

Career

Olsson studied journalism at the University of Queensland and went on to write for The Australian, The Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail, the Sydney Sunday Telegraph and Griffith Review. [2]

Her first novel In One Skin was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001. [3] This was followed by the biography Kilroy Was Here, which told the story of prison reformer Debbie Kilroy OAM . In 2010 her novel The China Garden won the Barbara Jefferis Award, which is offered annually for Australian novels which depict women and girls positively, or empower the position of women in society. [4] [5] [6]

Kristina's nonfiction work Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir won the 2013 Queensland Literary Award for Best Nonfiction and the Nita Kibble Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Stella Prize and the Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award. [1]

Olsson has also worked as a government advisor, and as a teacher of creative writing and journalism. [2] She supervises and mentors post-graduate writing students and also works as a manuscript assessor and editor. [1]

Books

Fiction

Non-fiction

Awards and nominations

Prizes

Shortlisted

Longlisted

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Writer Journalist and Teacher". Kristina Olsson. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 , Griffith Review Archived 2010-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ UQP Archived 26 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ ArtsHub
  5. ↑ Olsson, Kristina (April 2010), "A gift across time [Edited version of an acceptance speech for the 2010 Barbara Jefferis Award.]", Australian Author, 42 (1): 28, ISSN   0045-026X
  6. ↑ Perkins, Yvonne (17 May 2014). "Family Secrets: An interview with Kristina Olsson". 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge (AWW). Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Barbara Jefferis Award". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  8. ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards 2013 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University School of History. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "2019 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "Shell". International Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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