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Kristel Thornell (born 1975) is an Australian novelist.[1] Her first novel, Night Street, co-won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award,[2] and won the Dobbie Literary Award,[3] among other prizes and nominations.

Writing career

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Thornell's debut novel, Night Street, a fictionalization of the life of the Australian landscape painter Clarice Beckett,[4] co-won the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award[2] and won the Dobbie Literary Award,[3] the Barbara Ramsden Award,[5] and the University of Rochester's Andrew Eiseman Award.[6][7] Night Street was proposed for study by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) from 2014 to 2016.[8][9][10] In 2012, Thornell was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists.[11] Her second novel, On the Blue Train, published by Allen & Unwin in 2016 and inspired by the "disappearance" of Agatha Christie, was described by Kate Evans of ABC Radio National as "an elegant, literary novel about Teresa Neele, the woman Christie claimed to be when she disappeared, and the imagined people she met in this not-quite-sanctuary".[12] In 2017, Thornell was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts International Residency[13] in Rome. Her third novel, The Sirens Sing, was published by Fourth Estate Australia in 2022.[14][15]

Published works

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  • Night Street (2010) ISBN 9780864926722
  • On the Blue Train (2016) ISBN 9781525231353
  • The Sirens Sing (2022) ISBN 9781460762660

Awards

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For Night Street

References

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  1. ^ Austlit. "Kristel Thornell | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c McEvoy, Marc (18 September 2009). "Historical focus for Vogel winners". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Awards and Recipients". www.perpetual.com.au. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Facts in fiction: the artist Clarice Beckett". ABC Radio National. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Book awards: Barbara Ramsden Prize | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  6. ^ a b "University of Rochester Announces Award in Praise of Area Writers". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Kristel Thornell Discusses Becoming a Writer". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Pages - English and English as an Additional Language (EAL)". www.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  9. ^ Balsamo, Annelise (6 June 2014). Checkpoints VCE Text Guides: Night Street by Kristel Thornell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-99888-8.
  10. ^ Stitson, Roger (11 August 2014). "Text Talk: Night Street by Kristel Thornell". The Age. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  11. ^ a b "'SMH' Best Young Australian Novelists announced". Books+Publishing. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Kristel Thornell's novel of Agatha Christie, On the Blue Train". ABC Radio National. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  13. ^ "2017-18 Australia Council International Residencies announced". Australia Council for the Arts. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  14. ^ "The Sirens Sing". Books+Publishing. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  15. ^ Thornell, Kristel (2022). The Sirens Sing. Pymble, NSW: Fourth Estate Australia. ISBN 9781460762660. OCLC 1327991090.
  16. ^ a b "2011 New South Wales Premiers' Literary Awards Shortlists". ANZ LitLovers LitBlog. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
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