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Thomas Michael Keneally is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler’s Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler’s rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into director Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Schindler’s List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1975 for Gossip from the Forest, and 1979 for Confederates. Keneally’s first story was published in the Bulletin magazine in 1962 under the pseudonym Bernard Coyle.By February 2014, he had written over 50 books, including 30 novels. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. In 2006, Peter Pierce, Professor of Australian Literature, James Cook University, wrote: Keneally can sometimes seem the nearest that we have to a Balzac of our literature; he is in his own rich and idiosyncratic ways the author of an Australian ‘human comedy’.
‘A big and brutal book. Dazzling’ Australian
‘The huge talents of Thomas Keneally are everywhere on display.’ Guardian
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