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Kristel Thornell

クリステル・ソーンエル

Kurisuteru Sōneru

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1975
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Residence History
Australia → Rome (residency)

Career

Occupations
novelist
Active Years
2009-2024
Nominations
Shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2011), Shortlisted for Glenda Adams Award for New Writing (2011)

Awards

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
2009
Work: Night Street
Organization: The Australian / Vogel
Result: co-winner
Dobbie Literary Award
2011
Work: Night Street
Organization: Perpetual
Result: winner
Barbara Ramsden Award
2010
Work: Night Street
Category: Book of the Year
Organization: F.A.W.
Result: winner
Andrew Eiseman Award
2012
Work: Night Street
Organization: University of Rochester
Result: winner
The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
2011
Work: Night Street
Organization: The Sydney Morning Herald
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Night Street

2010 novel

A fictionalization of the life of the Australian landscape painter Clarice Beckett.

On the Blue Train

2016 novel

Inspired by Agatha Christie's disappearance, an elegant literary novel about Teresa Neele and the people she met.

The Sirens Sing

2022 novel

Bibliography

  • Night Street (2010)
  • On the Blue Train (2016)
  • The Sirens Sing (2022)

Legacy

Australian novelist whose debut novel won multiple literary awards.