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41: 2076: 762:. It tells the story of one of the children of the main character in the earlier book. Sarah Thornhill grows up knowing nothing of the dark secret in her family's past, and when she has to confront it, the direction of her life and her thinking is changed. It's a story about secrets and lies, and how to deal with a dark legacy from the past. Grenville has said that the book is set in the 19th century, but is as much about the ugly secrets in Australian history that her own generation inherited. 749:– the novel tells the story of a unique friendship. In learning the Gadigal language from a young girl, Dawes wrote down word-for-word parts of their conversations. Grenville has used these fragments as the basis for a novel exploring how it might be possible for two people to reach across the gulfs of language and culture that separate them, and arrive at a relationship of mutual warmth and respect. She has described it as a "mirror-image" of 553: 694:
is a black comedy about a marriage on the rocks. It explores themes of both men and women freeing themselves from stereotypes to accept their true selves. Both partners in the marriage are attracted to their own sex: the wife is prepared to acknowledge that and act on it while the husband refuses to.
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returns to this subject and can be seen as a fourth novel in this series. It takes as its starting-point the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of early wool baron John Macarthur. It tells the story of that remarkable woman, but its underlying theme is about the way false stories can come to replace
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is a satirical re-writing of Australia's history, foregrounding the women rather than the men. Joan is an Everywoman character who in various guises lives through all the iconic moments of Australia's past. She "makes history" both by simply living her life, and by (re)making history by writing it.
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is about people haunted by the impossible ideal of perfection. The two main characters are both middle-aged and frumpish, and consider themselves unlovably flawed. The journey they make is to recognise that to be "imperfect" is simply to be human, and carries its own power. As the epigraph from
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Grenville frequently does extensive research for her novels, often using historical or other sources as the starting-point for the work of the imagination. She says of her books that they are "sometimes inspired by historical events, but they are imaginative constructs, not an attempt to write
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These three books form a loose trilogy – "The Colonial Trilogy" – about the first three generations of white settlement in Australia, and what that shared black/white history means for contemporary Australians. The themes of the three books reach beyond Australia: all are widely read in other
1750: 677:, set in the early 20th century, takes as its subject a woman who rejects her middle-class background and the conventional future that is expected of her, and instead chooses to live as a street person, making a living by offering recitations from 535:. Her novels have all been published in the UK and US as well as Australia and have been translated into many languages, including German, Swedish, French, Hebrew and Chinese. Two have been made into feature films. 479:, in which she uses the fragments of memoir that her mother left to construct the story of a woman whose life—in some ways typical of her times, in others remarkable—spanned a century of tumult and dramatic change. 2202: 581: 2195: 373: 2211: 245:. Between 1976 and 1980 she lived in London and Paris, and wrote fiction while supporting herself by doing film-editing, writing, and secretarial jobs. In 1980 she went to the 432:(2006) is a memoir about the research and writing of the novel, tracing the journey of the author's increasing awareness of how Australia's colonial past informs its present. 415: 166:(born 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process. In 2001, she won the 1826: 2188: 741:
is the story of one of the very earliest moments of black-white relationship in Australia, at the time of first settlement in 1788. Based on a historical source – the
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Grenville has also written or co-written several books about the writing process which are widely used in creative writing workshops and in schools and universities:
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was published, the first of Grenville's books that take Australia's colonial past, and relations with Australia's indigenous people, as their subject.
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department. She won a literary grant in 1986 and left SBS to pursue her writing. Since the early 1990s she has been an Honorary Associate at the
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Some years after her mother died, Grenville put together a book about her, based on the memoirs and recordings her mother left. The result is
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was made into a TV mini-series, and adapted (by Andrew Bovell) as a play that had sell-out runs at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Festivals.
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Grenville has been awarded fellowships from the International Association of University Women and from the Literary Arts Board of the
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Her novels have been published worldwide and have been translated into many languages. Three have been adapted into feature films.
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and takes up the story of William Thornhill's youngest daughter. It can be read as a stand-alone novel, without reference to
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is a collection of short stories about women trying to free themselves from the gender stereotypes of their society.
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girl. These two novels together explore something of the complexity of black–white relations in Australia's past.
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and Paula Hamilton. She has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Sydney, the
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Grenville's early fiction presented characters trying to free themselves from social and gender stereotypes.
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is set in early 19th-century Australia and is based on the story of one of Grenville's convict ancestors,
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Kate Grenville's reputation as a short story writer was made by the publication in 1984 of her collection
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to do a master's degree in creative writing. She returned to Australia in 1983 and became a sub-editor at
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appeared in 2000 and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, at the time Britain's richest literary award.
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Kate Grenville at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas, talking about Artists, Writers and Climate Change
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Grenville's most recent non-fiction book is about the health problems that can be caused by the
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Eight Voices of the Eighties: Stories, Journalism and Criticism by Australian Women Writers
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In 2017 she published a book about the politics and health effects of artificial scents,
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sent to Australia from London in 1806. This book won the Commonwealth Prize, the
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Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature from the Australia Council in 2017
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was inspired by the story of Grenville's own great-great-great grandfather, a
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judge and barrister; and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist. She was educated at
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asserts: "An arch is two weaknesses that together make a strength".
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Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Sydney in 2012
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Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 2008
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Kate Grenville was born in 1950, one of three children born to
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Grenville has written a memoir of the research and writing of
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MP3 of Interview with Kate Grenville speaking about her book
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The Case Against Fragrance: Kate Grenville and Gia Metherell
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In 1994 Grenville returned to the characters and setting of
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Grenville has been married to Robert Steiner and cartoonist
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In 2006 she was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts by the
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countries where colonialism has left a problematic legacy.
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Peter Ellis, Interview with Kate Grenville, 1 August 2009.
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2014 Honours of the Library Council of New South Wales
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Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written
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Kate Grenville on ABC Drive, talking about her book
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Sydney
New South Wales
Bruce Petty
kategrenville.com.au
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Orange Prize
The Idea of Perfection
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Secret River
Man Booker Prize
Andrew Bovell
Sydney Theatre Company
Kenneth Grenville Gee
District Court
Cremorne Girls High School
University of Sydney
University of Colorado
Film Australia
creative writing
University of Colorado at Boulder
SBS Television
subtitling
University of Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
Glenda Adams
University of NSW
Macquarie University
Australia Council

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