Sulari Gentill

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Sulari Gentill
Born Sri Lanka
Occupationnovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active2010-present
Notable worksCrossing the Lines
Notable awards Davitt Award (2), Ned Kelly Award

Sulari Gentill is a Sri Lankan-born Australian author, also known under the pen name of S.D. Gentill. She initially studied astrophysics before becoming a corporate lawyer, but has since become a writer of mystery and fantasy fiction.

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Her novel Crossing The Lines won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. [1] Crossing the Lines was published as After She Wrote Him in Northern America. [2] Gentill's A Few Right Thinking Men was nominated for a 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize. [3]

Early life

Gentill was born in Sri Lanka. She was raised in Zambia and Brisbane, Australia. [4]

Education

Gentill started studying astrophysics, but ended up graduating in law.

Career

Gentill was a corporate lawyer. [4]

Gentill abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write.

She grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals.

Sulari is author of award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum-amateur-detective. The first in the series, A Few Right Thinking Men was shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book. A Decline in Prophets, the second in the series, won the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction. Miles Off Course was released in early 2012, Paving the New Road was released in late 2012 and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award for best crime fiction 2013. Gentlemen Formerly Dressed was released in November 2013. All the Tears in China, the latest in the series, will be released early in 2019.

Under the name S.D. Gentill, Sulari also writes a fantasy adventure series called The Hero Trilogy. All three books in the trilogy, Chasing Odysseus, Trying War and The Blood of Wolves are out now, and available in paperback, in a trilogy pack, and as eBooks. [5]

Bibliography

Rowland Sinclair series

  1. A Few Right Thinking Men (2010)
  2. A Decline in Prophets (2011) [6]
  3. Miles Off Course (2012)
  4. Paving the New Road (2012)
  5. Gentlemen Formerly Dressed (2013) [7]
  6. A Murder Unmentioned: Rowland Sinclair (2014) [8]
  7. Give the Devil His Due (2015)
  8. A Dangerous Language (2017)
  9. All the Tears in China (2019)
  10. A Testament of Character (2020)

Audio versions of The Rowland Sinclair Series are narrated by Rupert Degas.

The Hero Trilogy

  1. Chasing Odysseus (2011)
  2. Trying War (2012)
  3. The Blood of Wolves (2012)

Stand-alone novels

Personal life

Gentill's husband is Michael. They have two children. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Previous Winners: Best Fiction". Australian Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "After She Wrote Him". Poisoned Pen Press. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Australian/Vogel award turns 30". The Australian. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "On the right side of history". smh.com.au. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  5. ↑ "Pantera Press" . Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  6. ↑ MCFARLANE, IAN (9 July 2011). "Amateur sleuth a success". The Australian. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  7. ↑ GRAHAM, TIM (November 2013). "The story magnet". Good Reading. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Gentill, Sulari. "Reviews - A Murder Unmentioned" . Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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