Michelle de Kretser | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Colombo, Ceylon |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Notable works | The Hamilton Case ; The Lost Dog ; Questions of Travel; The Life to Come |
| Notable awards | Miles Franklin Award (2013, 2018) Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2008, 2014, 2019) |
| Partner | Chris Andrews |
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. [1]
De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, [2] in Melbourne at Elwood College, and in Paris.
She worked as an editor for a travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, The Rose Grower. Her second novel, The Hamilton Case , was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (in the 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 longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
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 2013 ALS Gold Medal, and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award.
Her 2017 novel, The Life to Come, was shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, and won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. This is the third time Michelle de Kretser has won this prize and equals Peter Carey's record of wins. [3]
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued at A$60,000.
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