Michelle de Kretser

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Michelle de Kretser (born 1957 or 1958 in Colombo ) is an Australian novelist.

Life

Michelle de Kretser was born in the city of Colombo , Sri Lanka , but emigrated to Australia at the age of 14 and now lives in Melbourne . She studied literature and French in Melbourne and Paris , taught in Montpellier for a year and worked as a lecturer for a few years . From 1989 to 1992 she was the editor of the Australian Women's Book Review .

Her second novel was also published in German under the title “Der Fall Hamilton” and has received a number of prizes: the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004, the Tasmania Pacific Prize 2005, the British Encore Award 2004 and the LiBeraturpreis 2007. Her third novel, “The Lost Dog ”, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008; the fourth, "Questions of Travel" (2012), received the Miles Franklin Award in 2013 , which she received again in 2018 for The Life to Come .

Works

  • Brief Encounters: Stories of Love, Sex & Travel (1998)
  • The Rose Grower (1999) (German: rose grower from Montsignac , Rütten and Loening 2001)
  • The Hamilton Case (2003) (German: Der Fall Hamilton , Klett-Cotta 2006)
  • The Lost Dog (2007)
  • Questions of Travel (2012)
  • The life to come . Allan & Unwin, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Kretser, Michelle de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957 or 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Colombo , Sri Lanka