Kate Grenville
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Kate Grenville (born 1950 in Sydney) is an Australian novelist. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado.
Her fiction includes Bearded Ladies, Lilian's Story, Dreamhouse, Joan Makes History, Dark Places, and The Idea of Perfection, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001. In 2006, her novel The Secret River won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and it was also shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award and the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
She has also written two non-fiction books: The Writing Book: A Manual for Fiction Writers and (with Sue Woolfe) Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written.
She was a born writer and wanted to be one right from childhood. [1] Her style of writing includes detailed research for more than a year. This includes reading on the topic and actual experience in the place. After the research, she tries to use the language in the times the book is set in. This can be poetic. When questioned about it, she replied "I would never write a sentence that didn’t have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn’t leave it to be published like that." [2] She uses italics for direct speech since she tries to give the idea of continuity during dialog. She gets the ideas for topics from life experiences. Her books are based on experiences that she wonders about. Her books are based on history with distortions so that readers would consider ideas that they might not otherwise want to deal with. One truth was distorted, but another was revealed.
Kate Grenville lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Grenville, Kate (1984). Bearded Ladies:Stories. U.Q.P.. ISBN 0-7022-1716-6.
- Grenville, Kate (1988). Joan Makes History: A Novel. U.Q.P.. ISBN 0-7022-2174-0.
- Grenville, Kate (1991). Lilian's Story. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-284-2.
- Grenville, Kate (1994). Dark Places. Picador. ISBN 0-330-33549-9.
- Grenville, Kate (2002). The Idea of Perfection. Viking Books. ISBN 0-670-03080-5.
- Grenville, Kate (2005). The Secret River. Text Publishing Co. ISBN 1-921145-25-0.
- Grenville, Kate (2006). Searching for the Secret River. ISBN 1-921145-39-0.
[edit] Translations
Dutch
- De verborgen rivier, 2006, ISBN 90-414-1015-5
German
- Joan macht Geschichte, 1991, ISBN 3-499-12979-5
- Der verborgene Fluss, 2006, ISBN 3-570-00867-3
Italian
- La storia di Lilian, 1998
[edit] References
- ^ Kate Grenville Interview with Australian Independent Book Publisher
- ^ Kate Grenville talks to Radio National
