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   Sep 27, 2024 · Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally. Another Booker-winning novel that is based on true events, Schindler’s Ark tells the story of Oskar Schindler, flawed hero and businessman, who was a serving member of the Nazi Party during the Second World War. Tricking the SS, Schindler risked his life in the process of saving approximately 1,200 Polish ...

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   2 days ago · Answer: Schindler's Ark 'Schindler's List' was a 1993 movie directed by Steven Spielberg. It was written by Steven Zaillian. Both of them won Oscars for their work on this movie and the movie itself won the top award that year. The movie was based on the book 'Schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally.

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   Sep 27, 2024 · Public domain Keneally has been taken to task for his biologised depictions of his female characters, who either support or fall victim to males at the centre of stories, and he has made a point in the latter part of his career to give centre stage, social context, and voice to woman characters.

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   Oct 7, 2024 · Come and Take It Flag. “Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.” ~Thomas Keneally.

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   Oct 1, 2024 · The Great Hunger. A young peasant woman and her family are caught in the mangle of the Famine and its accompanying fevers, is torn between a peasant lover, a rural, impulsive rebel, and the articulate gentleman young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher whom she has enchanted.

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   Oct 1, 2024 · Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-one 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.

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   Who is Thomas Keneally?

   • Thomas Keneally is an Australian author and historian who has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection, he draws on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding.

   Ten Terrifying Questions with Thomas Keneally! - Booktopia

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   How old is Thomas Keneally now and in time to be?

   • Thomas Michael Keneally was born on 7 October 1935. Thomas Michael Keneally is born in Sydney.

   Thomas Keneally a celebration - National Library of Australia

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   What happened to Tom Keneally in his childhood?

   • Tom Keneally experienced some challenging childhood health issues. In 1944, he was recovering from pneumonia in the hospital when he was near a boy suffering from polio in an iron lung and studying for the Leaving Certificate, the forerunner of the HSC. Keneally himself had previously been hospitalized for diphtheria. Many younger people have no concept now of how awful it was.

   ‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine

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   Is Tom Keneally alive?

   • Tom Keneally is still alive at the age of 85. He is my father. ‘One of the brothers (the Christian Brothers of St Patrick’s College in Sydney’s Strathfield) would come into the classroom from time to time and tell us someone had died’, Keneally said.

   ‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine

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   How many times has Keneally been nominated for the Booker Prize?

   • One of Australia’s most renowned literary exports, Keneally has been nominated for the Booker Prize four times. He was born in Sydney, where he still lives. We benefit financially from any purchases you make when using the ‘Buy the book’ links.

   11 of the best Booker-nominated books by Australian authors

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   1 day ago · Inspired by Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker, and based on real people who sailed with the First Fleet, Our Country’s Good is set in a penal colony in 1780s Australia and explores colonisation, deportation, and the healing power of theatre.