Michelle de Kretser at the Galle Literary Festival in 2011 Source:Thuppahis ITEM in Groundviews, 20 January 2011, entitled “Responding to a Facile Appeal: Galle Literary Festival and Freedom of Expression” Source:Thuppahis Michelle de Kretser signing. Photo by Sharni Jayawardena, courtesy Galle Literary Festival The Editors of Groundviews received via email this morning intimation of an international appeal made by Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists. The Galle literary festival appeal notes inter alia, “We believe this is not the right time for prominent international writers like you to give legitimacy to the Sri Lankan government’s suppression of free speech by attending a conference that does not in any way push for greater freedom of expression inside that country.” We also wonder why this appeal is issued now, in 2011? GLF began during war, and continued throughout it. Reflecting this, GLF sessions proper, as well ...
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STELLA PRIZE – ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY MICHELLE de KRETSER Hello everyone. Thank you all so much for being here. The 2025 Stella Prize does my work great honour, and I’m so happy to accept it. I wish I could join you in person to celebrate all the long and shortlisted writers. As that’s not possible, I’m recording this on land stolen from the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present, and acknowledge that their connection to country is unbroken. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. To Amy, Samah, Jumaana, Santilla and Melanie, my heartfelt thanks for the honour of your company, and for the many ways in which you reconfigure our understanding and our literature. Big thanks to all the following: To the judges for the demanding work of reading and thinking about so many books. To the donors for ...
‘A form of creative death’ Writer Michelle de Kretser’s fear of becoming stale – By Benjamin Law Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Michelle de Kretser. The Sri-Lankan-born novelist, 64, emigrated to Australia at age 14. She has won the Miles Franklin twice, for Questions of Travel and The Life to Come, and her new novel, Scary Monsters, is on the award’s 2022 shortlist. “I was lucky to come to Australia at a time when tertiary education was free. I know what it is to not be middle-class.” CREDIT:JOY M LAI DEATH You once wrote a short, moving essay about the death of your pet dog. Tell me about your dogs and why they’re so important to you. They just help enliven our lives. ...
Jul 4, 2022
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Michelle de Kretser: From Methodist College to Global Platforms Source:Thuppahis Michelle de Kretser = born 11 November 1957 = an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14.[1] De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo and in Methodist College, Colombo,[2] and in Melbourne and Paris. She worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, The Rose Grower. Her second novel, published in 2003, The Hamilton Case was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, The Lost Dog, was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the Australian Women’s Book Review. Her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, won several awards, ...
Miles Franklin Literary Award: Michelle de Kretser wins Australia’s most prestigious literary prize for the second time ABC Arts By Dee Jefferson and Kate Evans for RN’s The Bookshelf Updated yesterday at 10:46pmSun 26 Aug 2018, 10:46pm Photo: Speaking of the financial role of literary prizes, de Kretser says: “It means you don’t wake up at 3 in the morning worrying about the bills you have to pay.” (ABC) Audio: Michelle de Kretser and The Life To Come (Books and Arts) Related Story: A reader’s guide to the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, worth $60,000, has been awarded this year to Michelle de Kretser for her novel The Life to Come. It is the second Miles Franklin for de Kretser, who won in 2013 for her novel Questions of Travel, and the third time in the award’s 61-year history that a woman has ...
Aug 27, 2018
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