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Thomas Keneally


(Thomas Michael Keneally)
Australia (b.1935)

aka William Coyle, Meg and Tom Keneally

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, Shame and the Captives and Napoleon's Last Island. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.
 

Awards: LA Times (1983), Booker (1982)  see all

Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Place at Whitton (1964)
   The Fear (1965)
   Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
   Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
   The Survivor (1969)
   A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
   The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
   Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
   Gossip from the Forest (1975)
   Season in Purgatory (1976)
   Victim of the Aurora (1977)
   Ned Kelly and the City of Bees (1978)
   Confederates (1979)
   Passenger (1979)
   The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
   Bullie's House (1981)
   Schindler's Ark (1982)
     aka Schindler's List
   A Family Madness (1985)
   The Playmaker (1987)
   To Asmara (1989)
     aka Towards Asmara
   Act of Grace (1989) (as by William Coyle)
   By the Line (1989)
   Flying Hero Class (1991)
   Chief of Staff (1992) (as by William Coyle)
   Woman of the Inner Sea (1992)
   Jacko (1993)
   A River Town (1995)
   Bettany's Book (2000)
   The Office of Innocence (2002)
   The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
   Widow and Her Hero (2007)
   The People's Train (2009)
   The Daughters of Mars (2012)
   Shame and the Captives (2014)
   Napoleon's Last Island (2016)
   Crimes of the Father (2017)
   The Book of Science and Antiquities (2018)
   The Dickens Boy (2020)
   The Great Hunger (2021) (with others)
   Fanatic Heart (2023)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Blackberries (2012)
   The Pact (2020)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 

Awards
1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Schindler's Ark
1982 Booker Prize : Schindler's Ark

Award nominations
2013 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Daughters of Mars
1979 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Confederates
1975 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Gossip from the Forest
1972 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith


Thomas Keneally recommends
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The Dictionary of Lost Words (2021)
Pip Williams
"What a novel of words, their adventure, and their capacity to define and, above all, challenge the world. There will not be this year a more original novel published. I just know it."
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Rockaway Blue (2021)
Larry Kirwan
"This eloquent memoir establishes Larry Kirwan as the premier voice of the Irish in the New York region, and tells its tale with dramatic tension, humour and elegance."
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An Unlikely Spy (2021)
Rebecca Starford
"Rebecca Starford seems to be the inheritor of the cool, narrative elegance of Graham Greene and John le Carré. Her building of the tale to reach the critical moral apogee of this book seems effortless, and she has found a fascinating and unexpected World War II corner of espionage and intelligence to exploit for a plot that runs like milk and honey."

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