1. Kate Grenville - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Kate Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is an Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Grenville

Kate Grenville From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Kate Grenville Born 14 October Sydney, Australia Occupation Novelist, Teacher of creative writing Nationality Australian Genres General fiction, Historical fiction, Short stories Website http://www.users.bigond.com/kgrenville Kate Grenville (born 14 October ) is an Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado Contents Life Career Style and subject matter Awards and Nominations ... edit Life She was a born writer and wanted to be one right from childhood. . After completing her undergraduate degree in Australia, she worked in the film industry, mostly editing documentaries at Film Australia . In 1976, she went to the UK on a working holiday for six months, and ended up being away for seven years. She lived in London and Paris, and wrote fiction while supporting herself by doing film-editing, writing, and secretarial jobs. In 1980 she went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to do a Masters degree in Creative Writing. She returned to Australia in 1983 and became a sub-editor at SBS Television in the subtitling department. She won a literary grant in 1986 and left SBS to pursue her writing.

2. Books And Writing - 17/07/2005: Kate Grenville Kate Grenville talks to Ramona Koval about her latest and much anticipated new novel The Secret River This is a tale that seeks to gain a new vantage point http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1414510.htm

Book Reading The Book Show By Design The Deep End ... The Space with Ramona Koval Sunday 17/07/2005 Kate Grenville Summary: Kate Grenville talks to Ramona Koval about her latest, and much anticipated, new novel The Secret River . This is a tale that seeks to gain a new vantage point from which to view Australia's European settlement. It's a story of ordinary people, inter-cultural incoherence and dreadful inevitabilities. Details or Transcript: Ramona Koval : This week, a conversation with Kate Grenville, whose new long-awaited novel, The Secret River , has been well worth waiting for. Kate’s last novel was The Idea of Perfection , a love story about two shy and not conventionally attractive people in a small town, and it won for her the Orange Prize for Fiction in the UK. It was a long-time best-seller in Australia and the UK, and was published to acclaim in the USA. A film adaptation of the novel is currently being made. The Secret River is a very different book. It’s an historical novel set in the early years of the settlement of NSW, and follows the life and times of William Thornhill, who was sentenced in 1806 to be transported to NSW for the term of his natural life. With his wife and children, he eventually takes up land on the Hawkesbury River, and it’s this phrase, ‘takes up land’, that Kate Grenville examines, because it’s a phrase that doesn’t instantly invoke the risk and bloodshed that actually happened. It’s a wonderful and disturbing novel, full of detail about life and work in the colony of NSW, and daring descriptions of the land and the strangeness of the encounters between black and white people. And when Kate Grenville spoke to me recently, I asked her to read from

3. Auckland Writers & Readers Festival - Kate Grenville Kate grenville kate Grenville won the Orange Prize in 2001 for The Idea of Perfection. This, and her other works of fiction—Lilian’s Story, Dreamhouse, http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/authors/kategrenville.asp

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5. Kate Grenville --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Kate Grenville Australian novelist whose works of historical fiction examined class, race, and gender in colonial http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9438368/Kate-Grenville

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6. Kate Grenville - Canongate Home KATE GRENVILLE was born in Sydney. Her most recent novel, The Idea of Perfection, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and became a longrunning bestseller. http://www.canongate.net/Kate-Grenville

Skip main menu Canongate Home About Authors ... News And Events Search the site Entire site Authors Titles Book of Lists Advanced Book Search Quick link Home Contact Canongate Become a Member The Book Of Lists The Assassins Quote Advanced Search Browse books by: Author A-Z Title A-Z by Genre by Pub Date New Books Books with extracts Downloads Recommendations My Basket Shipping Rates Members Login Authors Browse by contributor A B C D ... ALL Kate Grenville The bestselling, Orange-prize-winning Australian author. Kate Grenville's Website KATE GRENVILLE was born in Sydney. Her most recent novel, The Idea of Perfection, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and became a long-running bestseller. Her five other works of fiction have won numerous awards. Kate Grenville lives in Sydney with her family. Titles by Kate Grenville The Secret River Searching for the Secret River - Paperback Lilian's Story News about Kate Grenville The Secret River ? www.bookgroup.info Book of the Month The Secret River ? Prize Winner 20% off Summer Reads Contact Canongate ... Screenbase

7. Kate Grenville Kate Grenville worked and studied in Europe and the USA for several years, although she now lives in her native Sydney. Grenville studied English literature http://www.biogs.com/booker/grenville.html

@import "profile.css"; Kate Grenville Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia in October 1950. Grenville's The Secret River, which has already won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was shortlisted for the 2006 Booker prize. Grenville has had accolades before - most notably, The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Kate Grenville worked and studied in Europe and the USA for several years, although she now lives in her native Sydney. Grenville studied English literature at the University of Sydney but went into the film industry in 1972 and worked her way up to be an editor. However, travelling through Europe, Kate Grenville stopped in Paris, and, in her own words , wrote two "appalling, atrocious novels" in six months. Back in Australia, Kate Grenville was earning money editing copy part-time whilst writing Lilian's Story in her spare time. Lilian's Story was later made into a film starring Ruth Cracknell, Toni Collette and Barry Otto. Kate Grenville's other works include Dark Places (which tells the same story as Lilian's Story but from the perspective of Lilian's father), Joan Makes History, and Dreamhouse (which was adaped into the film Traps, starring Jacqueline MacKenzie). When Kate Grenville was teaching writing to adults at the University of Sydney, she produced two factual book: The Writing Book; and with Sue Woolfe, she edited Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written.

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9. Kate Grenville Kate Grenville was born in Sydney. The Idea of Perfection, published in 2002, was a bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Britain’s most http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2005/content/standard.asp?name=Grenvil

10. Kate Grenville Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris UK Alibris UK has new used books by Kate Grenville, including hardcovers, softcovers, rare, outof-print first editions, signed copies, and more. http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/author/Kate Grenville

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11. Evading Serious Issues The Idea Of Perfection By Kate Grenville Kate Grenville is one of Australia s betterknown contemporary writers. Her most critically acclaimed novels are Lilian s Story, which became a feature film http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/idea-a15.shtml

Enter email address to receive news about the WSWS Add Remove SEARCH WSWS English German ON THE WSWS Donate to the WSWS! News Feed Contact the ... Books Online OTHER LANGUAGES German French Italian Russian ... Indonesian LEAFLETS Download in PDF format WSWS Book Review Evading serious issues The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville, Pan MacMillan Australia, ISBN 0-330-36206-2 By Gabriela Notaras 15 April 2002 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author Kate Grenville is a critically acclaimed Australian novelist who briefly worked in the film industry before taking up writing seriously in the late 1970s. Most of her books attempt to explore inequality between the sexes in relationships, family life and society in general. Bearded Ladies: Stories Dreamhouse Joan Makes History: A Novel (1988) and Dark Places Her latest book, The Idea of Perfection Savage is a tall, bulky and reserved middle-aged woman. Married three times and with three adult children, she works in textiles and has been commissioned to help establish the Pioneer Heritage Museum in Karakarook. The old mining town has virtually no industry, except for a few barely surviving small local businesses. The aim is to establish the museum as a major tourist attraction in order to save the town from financial ruin. Douglas is attracted to Harley and begins a clumsy but sincere effort to ingratiate himself with her. Harley is psychologically scarred from previous marriages and reluctant to become involved. A relationship of sorts develops until Harley brusquely calls it off when she realises they have become the talk of the small town. Several incidents occur, however, which draw them back together.

12. Kate Grenville Site - Homepage Information about contemporary Australian novelist kate grenville with interviews and excerpts from her writing. http://www.users.bigpond.com/kgrenville/

Kate Grenville Homepage THE AUTHOR: Biography Interviews THE FICTION: Bearded Ladies Lilian's Story Dreamhouse Joan Makes ... Dark Places (Albion's Story) The Idea of Perfection The Secret River (2005) THE NON-FICTION: The Writing Book Making Stories Writing from Start to Finish Searching for the Secret River FINDING THE BOOKS: Bibliography Where to buy Welcome to Kate Grenville's website. On this site you'll find information about all my books. There are extracts, reviews, notes for readers' groups and interviews. Just click on the book titles on the left to explore. There's also some general information about myself, a bibliography of the books, and some of the places where you can buy them. To contact me, please go through my agent: Barbara Mobbs PO Box 126 Edgecliff NSW 2027 Australia beemobbs@bigpond.net.au I hope the site is useful - happy reading. P lease bookmark this page so you can come back to it easily.

13. Australian Authors - Kate Grenville Brief biography and bibliography. Quotes from Lilian s Story and Joan Makes History. http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/grenvillek/grenvillek.html

Kate Grenville Brief Biography Kate Grenville was born in Sydney in 1950 and holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado. She has worked as a film editor, journalist, typist and teacher, and spent seven years in Europe and the USA working and studying. She has held fellowships from the Internatonal Association of University Women, and from the Literary Arts Board of the Australia Council. Her novel Lilian's Story won the Australian /Vogel Award in 1986, Dark Places was shortlisted for the 1995 Miles Franklin Award , and The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001. Kate Grenville now writes full-time and lives in Sydney. Bibliography N ovels Lilian's Story Dreamhouse Joan Makes History Dark Places 1994 (aka Albion's Story The Idea of Perfection The Secret River S hort S tory C ollections Bearded Ladies N on- F iction The Writing Book: a workbook for fiction writers Making Stories: how ten Australian novels were written 1993 - in collaboration with Sue Wolfe W eb P resence Kate Grenville has her own web page at: http://www.alm.aust.com/~kategren/index.html

14. Kate Grenville Many creative writers have used historical material in their work. kate grenville reflects on her own use of such material and on issues which this has http://www.nla.gov.au/events/history/papers/Kate_Grenville .html

Back Kate Grenville The Novelist as Barbarian Many creative writers have used historical material in their work. Kate Grenville reflects on her own use of such material and on issues which this has raised. How important is historical accuracy to the creative process? When Jill Roe said of history "Getting it right means you can’t make it up", it was a reminder to novelists like me that, although we might use history, we also have to respect it. It’s all very well to play fast and loose with historical truths, but there comes a point when you have to get it right, or try to at least. As a novelist, my relationship to history has always been pretty much the same relationship the Goths had to Rome. ( Wait - was it Rome? Was it Goths?) History for a greedy novelist like me is just one more place to pillage. What we’re after, of course, is stories, and we know that history is bulging with beauties. Having found them, we then proceed to fiddle with them to make them the way we want them to be, rather than the way they really were. We get it wrong, willfully and knowingly. But perhaps you could say that the very flagrency of our "getting it wrong" points to the fact that all stories ­ even the history "story" ­ are made. They have an agenda, even if it’s an unconscious one. Perhaps there are many ways to get it right.

15. Kate Grenville: Secret River, Secret Past kate grenville Secret river, secret past For kate grenville, each book starts out as a problem that needs to be resolved. The Secret River — which won http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/art_profiles/article_1841.asp

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16. Orange Prize 2001 | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books The Idea of Perfection by kate grenville (Picador) Report kate grenville s win establishes the Australian author beyond doubt as an international force http://books.guardian.co.uk/orangeprize2001/0,,461382,00.html

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18. Kate Grenville On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 188 conversations about kate grenville s books. Member ratings. Average (3.77) Disambiguation notice. Users with books by kate grenville http://www.librarything.com/author/grenvillekate

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19. Jabberwock: Meeting Kate Grenville And Tim Winton Overdue blog on my meeting with the Australian authors Tim Winton and kate grenville last week. Have to write the profiles now so thought I’d blog on it http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2004/11/meeting-kate-grenville-and-tim-winton.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=8204542"); Jabberwock 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/ Did gyre and gimble in the wabe/ All mimsy were the borogoves/ And the mome raths outgrabe. Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Meeting Kate Grenville and Tim Winton Overdue blog on my meeting with the Australian authors Tim Winton and Kate Grenville last week. Have to write the profiles now so thought I’d blog on it first and then structure/formalise it for the magazine. Winton and Grenville – along with a third author, Peter Goldsworthy - were in town as part of a literary tour; since we only had space for two profiles I had to choose, and Goldsworthy drew the short straw. The interviews were being held at the Imperial and my appointment was scheduled alongside that of at least three other journos (each with their own photographers) – which meant there was much chaos in the Imperial’s stately corridors. I went for the appo feeling sorry for myself much of the joy of reading vanishes when one has to speed-read books because of deadline constraints – but watching the three Aussies being shepherded hither and thither by hassled Penguin Books staff ("Tim! The HT reporter needs 15 minutes to ask you what it’s like to not live in Sydney, after which the Week photographer wants you beaming by the deckchairs." "Oilright, mate!"), I reflected that authors don’t exactly have it easy.

20. Portents Are As Good As They Get For Grenville Win - Books - Entertainment If kate grenville wins the Man Booker Prize tonight for her novel The Secret River, she might reflect on how London has shaped her life. http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/portents-are-as-good-as-they-get-for-grenville-

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