Michelle de Kretser
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Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Questions of Travel was the winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Prime Ministers Literary Award for Fiction and the Western Australian Premier's Prize and Award for Fiction.

Books by Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser Articles

Podcast: Funny, Sad and Suspenseful with Michelle de Kretser

Podcast

7 May 2018

Podcast: Funny, Sad and Suspenseful with Michelle de Kretser

    Do you listen more than you read? A list of our new and upcoming favourite audiobooks from Bolinda

    News

    22 March 2018

    Do you listen more than you read? A list of our new and upcoming favourite audiobooks from Bolinda

      2018 Stella Prize Shortlist Announced

      News

      8 March 2018

      2018 Stella Prize Shortlist Announced