Thomas Keneally
Blanche d’Alpuget’s relationship with Bob Hawke is probably the least interesting thing about her
Australia’s most famous mistress-turned-wife on her life as a teenage runaway, the assault that changed her, and finding gratitude.
- Jacqueline Maley
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Our link to the Crown is an anachronism that must end
Bravo, Tom Keneally, your views on the outdated relationship between Australia and Britain are on the money, writes Warren Thomas.
- Opinion
- Opinion
Call this a geriatric rant if you wish, but at 90, I’ve decided enough is enough
I’m fond of King Charles but, on my significant birthday, I must declare: I am not his subject. I owe him no allegiance.
- Thomas Keneally
Peter Carey says he’s done writing novels: ‘You have to know when it’s enough’
The Australian literary giant has confirmed there won’t be another novel from him.
- Melanie Kembrey
‘Ripping yarn’: Searching for the lead role in Baz and Tom’s Joan of Arc epic
Shooting of Jehanne d’Arc will start on the Gold Coast.
- Andrew Hornery
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- Indigenous culture
Ancient Indigenous heritage that makes Greeks and Romans look like Johnnies come lately
The heritage Olympics are coming to Australia – and it will result in a motion to acknowledge traditional Indigenous owners of lands around the world, and do more to recognise their unique contribution.
- Julie Power
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- Literature
‘An Oscar for Oskar’: Schindler’s Ark families honour author Tom Keneally
The families of the Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler paid tribute to the Schindler’s Ark author this week.
- Helen Pitt
Tom Keneally’s sparkling new novel is a book for our times
The acclaimed author is acutely aware of the risks associated with his novel about a controversial Irish nationalist.
- Morag Fraser
From the Archives, 1982: Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark wins Booker Prize
40 years ago, Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction, for his book ‘Schindler’s Ark’. Keneally was the first Australian winner of the distinguished prize.
- Janet Hawley
Keneally wins historical fiction prize and fires a shot for writers
Tom Keneally has won the $50,000 Historical Novel Prize and used some of his award to make a statement about the value of writers to Australia.
- Jason Steger