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Michelle de Kretser

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Best-selling author Michelle De Kretser writes powerful and luminous narratives about mystery, love and history. 
Michelle de Kretser / Author biography
De Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Having studied French at Melbourne University, De Kretser spent a year teaching in Montpellier before doing an MA in Paris. De Kretser has worked for many years as an editor at Lonely Planet Publications and was responsible for setting up their French series.
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Michelled de Krester’s first novel, The Rose Grower, was published to great acclaim around the world and was a critical and commercial success in Australia. Her second book, The Hamilton Case, was the winner of the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize 2005, the Encore Award 2004, the regional winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Frankfurt Literaturpreis 2007. It was also long listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005. De Kretser's third novel, The Lost Dog, won the 2008 NSW Premier's Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and 'Book of the Year'.
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