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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 ( 1982 ) tells the story of Oskar Schindler, flawed hero and businessman, who was a serving member of the Nazi Party during the Second World War.

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3. www.thetimes.com.au › world › 18775-in-fanatic-heartIn Fanatic Heart, Tom Keneally revisits the tumultuous life ...

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   Sep 27, 2024 · Tom Keneally has regularly stored away curious details and colourful characters from history, sometimes waiting until he found the form best suited to his dramatising of them, occasionally repeating them in different guises, once or twice finding the moment of topical discussion into which they could be blended.

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   Oct 8, 2024 · Thomas Keneally has won the Miles Franklin Award in consecutive years 1967 and 1968. In 1982 he won the Booker Prize for 'Schindler's Ark' which Stephen Spielberg filmed under the title 'Schindler's List' in 1993.

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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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   Sep 21, 2024 · Book ID: 100669 | Title: Napoleon's Last Island | Author: Thomas Keneally, Tom Keneally | Category: Ficton | Binding: Trade | Edition: | Publisher: | Condition: Good

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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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   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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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Miles_Franklin_AwardMiles Franklin Award - Wikipedia

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   4 days ago · The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". [1] The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901).