From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. 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). She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, 'The Rose Grower' in 1999. Michelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14. Part of de Kretser's point seems to be that the privileged travellers of the affluent West share a travel heritage, a way of looking and of describing that makes the world seem navigable and. Its one of the most beautifully written books Ive ever read. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. ' Questions of Travel is that gleaming thing that makes everything around it seem dull in comparison. 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). Questions of Travel: Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award eBook : Kretser, Michelle de:. Michelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.
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