Kate Grenville
Forfatter af The Secret River
Om forfatteren
Kate Grenville was born in Sydney on October 14, 1950. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a BA (Honours), the University of Colorado with a MA and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is one of Australia's best-known authors. She is the winner of the vis mere Orange Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in London in 2015. She also made the Indie Awards 2016 shortlists in the Nonfiction category with her title One Life. (Publisher Fact Sheets) vis mindre
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Værker af Kate Grenville
The Lieutenant; and The secret river 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Grenville, Kate
- Andre navne
- Grenville, Catherine Elizabeth (birth name)
- Fødselsdato
- 1950-10-15
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Fødested
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Bopæl
- Colorado, USA
Sydney, Australia - Uddannelse
- University of Sydney (BA)
University of Colorado (MA ∙ Creative Writing)
Cremorne Girls' High School
University of Technology, Sydney - Erhverv
- novelist
creative writing teacher - Agent
- Barbara Mobbs
Medlemmer
Discussions
November 2011: Kate Grenville i Monthly Author Reads (december 2011)
Anmeldelser
The Idea of Perfection af Kate Grenville
Mennesker mødes, og sød musik opstår. En kvinde og en mand, begge med ar på sjælen, kommer tilfældigvis på samme tid, men i hvert sit ærinde, til den lille by Karakarook i den australske outback. De havde begge for længst opgivet kærligheden, men forelsker sig langsomt i hinanden, og erkendelsen af deres svagheder og særheder er styrken i denne historie. Billedet af den lille flække Karakarook ude i bushen med støvede veje, under stegende sol, og de særegne indbyggere, står så klart, at man næsten selv er til stede.… (mere)
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