Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser is an award-winning novelist of international acclaim. 

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Having studied French at Melbourne University, she spent a year teaching in Montpellier before doing an MA in Paris.

She has worked for many years as an editor at Lonely Planet Publications and was responsible for setting up their French series. Her first novel, The Rose Grower (Vintage Australia, 2000), was published to great acclaim around the world and was a critical and commercial success in Australia.

Michelle's second book, The Hamilton Case (Knopf, Australia, 2003), was the winner of the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize 2005, the Encore Award 2004, the regional winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Frankfurt LiBeraturpreis 2007.  The Hamilton Case was also longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005. 

Michelle's third novel, The Lost Dog, will be published by Allen & Unwin, Australia in October 2007.

Contact: Sarah Lutyens, Lutyens & Rubenstein
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