Awards

• Long-listed for Fiction Book of the Year 2022 (Australia)
• Long-listed for Indie Book Awards 2022 (Australia)
• Long-listed for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Indie Book Awards 2022 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Kirkus Prize 2022 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2022 (Australia)

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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 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. Michelle's fourth novel, Questions of Travel, received 14 honours, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her latest novel, The Life to Come, was shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize and won the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Michelle now lives in Sydney with her partner, the poet and translator Chris Andrews.

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