Michelle de Kretser
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia with her family in 1972. She has taught English at the University of Melbourne, as well as working as an editor and book reviewer. Her novels, The Rose Grower (1999) and The Hamilton Case (2003), have been published across the world and translated into several languages. The Hamilton Case won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Encore Award and the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Australian and New Zealand fiction. The Lost Dog is her third novel. She lives in Melbourne.
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The days are getting shorter and the mornings increasingly crisp which in the Australian publishing world can only mean one thing – the Sydney Writers’ Festival is upon us. Between Monday 16 and Sunday 22 May Sydney will be swarming with writers and festival-goers and this year Artistic Director Chip Rolley is treating us to over 400 events with some amazing writers in locations all...
Books by Michelle de Kretser
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The Hamilton Case
by Michelle de KretserPublished: 01/10/2004
A haunting and acclaimed novel of thwarted ambition, corruption, murder and family secrets by the author of the acclaimed bestseller THE ROSE GROWER.
