Born in Colombo to a Sri-Lankan family which emigrated to Australia when she was fourteen, Michelle de Kretser, taught in Montpellier, took an MA at the Sorbonne, and worked for several years as an editor. She now lives in Melbourne. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, was published in 1999.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Rose Grower (1999)
The Hamilton Case (2003)
The Lost Dog (2007)
Questions of Travel (2013)
The Life to Come (2018)
Scary Monsters (2022)
The Hamilton Case (2003)
The Lost Dog (2007)
Questions of Travel (2013)
The Life to Come (2018)
Scary Monsters (2022)
Novellas
Non fiction
Awards
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Michelle de Kretser recommends

The Better Son (2016)
Katherine Johnson
"The Better Son maps an emotional landscape as shifting and precarious as the Limestone Country so splendidly evoked here. Katherine Johnson is a sure-footed guide to lives hallowed out by secrets that reach deep into the past."

The Mission House (2020)
Carys Davies
"Tender, playful, piercing, light-footedthis is an irresistible novel."
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