Sarah Krasnostein

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Sarah Krasnostein
Born United States of America
OccupationWriter
Notable worksThe Trauma Cleaner, The Believer
Notable awardsVictorian Prize for Literature, Australian Book Industry Award, Pascall Prize
Website
sarahkrasnostein.com

Sarah Krasnostein is an American-Australian non-fiction writer.

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Education

Born in the United States, [1] Krasnostein completed a BA/LLB (honours) degree from the University of Melbourne in 2005. [2] She was admitted as an attorney of the State of New York in 2006, and in 2009 she was admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia. [2]

She graduated with a PhD in criminal law from Monash University in 2016. Her thesis, "Pursuing Consistency: The Effect of Different Reforms on Unjustified Disparity in Individualised Sentencing Frameworks", was awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law. [3] Her research [4] has been cited by the Victorian Court of Appeal, [5] [6] [7] the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council, [8] and various academic journals. [9] [10] [11]

Writing

Krasnostein's first book, The Trauma Cleaner, was published in 2017. [12] She spent four years researching the book, which is a work of narrative non-fiction about the life and work of Sandra Pankhurst. [13] She was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Prize for Non-Fiction at the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction, the Dobbie Literary Award and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. For The Trauma Cleaner, Krasnostein was a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Walkley Book Award, the National Biography Award, and the Wellcome Book Prize (UK). [13] [14]

Her second book, The Believer, was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker. [15] Another work of narrative non-fiction, The Believer braids together the stories of six people from vastly different backgrounds. [16] "The line between fact and fiction blurs to revelatory effect," wrote The New Yorker, "in this account of ghost hunters, death doulas, six-day creationists, U.F.O. investigators, and others who hold ideas at odds with, as the author judiciously puts it, 'more accepted realities'." [17] The Washington Post called the book, "generous and compassionate. . . . Her talent for penetrating intimate settings and eliciting personal testimony is impressive. The profiles are fascinating." [18] For The Believer, Krasnostein was shortlisted for the 2021 Nib Literary Award. [19]

In 2022, she was awarded Australia's Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism for her television reviews for The Saturday Paper. [20] [21] The judges said, “In the time of Covid, Sarah Krasnostein explored the artistic possibilities of television, as it met our desires for distraction and connection. She evoked new dramatic landscapes, as well as cultural change. There was depth of reference, a sense of formal advance, dry wit, and emotional openness.” [21]

Works

Books

Essay

Personal

Krasnostein is married to Australian comedian, Charlie Pickering. [24]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sarah Krasnostein". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 Krasnostein, Sarah; Freiberg, Arie (2 October 2014). "Sentencing Guideline Schemes Across the United States and Beyond". Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.001. ISBN   978-0-19-993538-3 . Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Spotlight on HDR graduates". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Author Page for Sarah Krasnostein :: SSRN".
  5. ↑ "DPP v Dalgliesh (A Pseudonym)".
  6. ↑ "DPP v Amaral".
  7. ↑ "Ashdown v the Queen".
  8. ↑ "Sentencing Guidance in Victoria Report" (PDF). sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  9. ↑ Vincent Chiao (2018). "Criminal law as public law I: Context". Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190273941.003.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-027394-1.
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  12. ↑ Kisler, Moraig (17 December 2017). "The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein – Sisters in Crime Australia". Sisters in Crime. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  13. 1 2 Harmon, Steph (1 February 2018). "Sarah Krasnostein wins $125,000 at Australia's richest literary prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  14. ↑ Sarah Krasnostein website
  15. ↑ "The Best Books of 2022". The New Yorker. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  16. ↑ "The Believer".
  17. ↑ "Briefly Noted". The New Yorker . 7 April 2022.
  18. ↑ Lisa Birnbach (11 March 2022). "Compassionate portraits of people with faith — in aliens, ghosts and God". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.
  19. ↑ "Nib Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  20. ↑ "Sarah Krasnostein". 6 October 2018.
  21. 1 2 "Arts Journalism Prizes".
  22. ↑ Krasnostein, Sarah (18 March 2022). "Not Waving, Drowning". Quarterly Essay. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  23. ↑ On Peter Carey by Sarah Krasnostein. 13 December 2022.
  24. ↑ Davidson, Helen (12 March 2014). "Charlie Pickering quits The Project". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 February 2024.
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