questions of travel michelle de kretser review

Those who risked their lives making the trip by boat and arriving illegally were taken to detention facilities like the one on the Australian territory of Christmas Island. In 2012, more than 5700 Sri Lankan refugees sought asylum in Australia. Recent investigations, including eyewitness accounts in books like Frances Harrison’s Still Counting the Dead (2012), suggest Sri Lanka is a country still suffering, where the full truth remains to be told and acknowledged. As a result of both catastrophes, large numbers of people were left injured, displaced and traumatised, or have disappeared without trace. In 2004, a tsunami devastated the island, killing over 35 000 people. During the escalated carnage and human rights abuses of the last months of the war, between 10 000 and 40 000 people were killed, most of them civilians. She is the author of The Life to Come, published in September 2017.From 1983 until 2009, Sri Lankans were involved in or endured a brutal civil war. She will also be taking part in the winter reading series, Writers on Mondays when she visits Victoria University in September 2015. She won the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Life to Come In 2015 her title, Springtime, made the shortlist for the Australian Book Designers Association Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 Dublin Impac Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal), and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction. 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 third novel, The Lost Dog, was published in 2007. 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 worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, The Rose Grower. She was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, and in Melbourne and Paris. (Publisher Provided) Michelle de Kretser was born on Novemin Sri Lanka.

Michelle de Kretser is an editor who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Questions of travel michelle de kretser review