Catherine Elizabeth Greville 1950 (age 73–74) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Novelist, teacher of creative writing
Nationality
Australian
Genre
General fiction, historical fiction, short stories
Spouses
Robert Steiner
Bruce Petty
(m. 1988, separated)
Children
2
Website
kategrenville.com.au
Catherine Elizabeth GrenvilleAO (born 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process. In 2001, she won the Orange Prize for The Idea of Perfection,[1] and in 2006 she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Secret River.[2]The Secret River was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.[3]
Her novels have been published worldwide and have been translated into many languages. Three have been adapted into feature films.[4]The Secret River was adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell and toured by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2019.[5]
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^Sydney Theatre Company (2019), The Secret River, Edinburgh International Festival theatre programme.
the Sydney Theatre Company in 2019. KateGrenville was born in 1950, one of three children born to Kenneth Grenville Gee, a District Court judge and barrister;...
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2006 In the Company of the Courtesan Sarah Dunant 2009 The Lieutenant KateGrenville Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Geraint Anderson 2010 A Clockwork...
of the planet. In the 2020 historical novel A Room Made of Leaves by KateGrenville, a makeshift orrery made from scraps found in the early colony of New...
short story writers are Steele Rudd, Henry Lawson, Beverley Farmer, KateGrenville, and Helen Garner. Although historically only a small proportion of...
of a fictitious memoir, A Room Made of Leaves, by Australian author, KateGrenville, published in 2020. Steven, Margaret. "John Macarthur". Australian Dictionary...
The Secret River (co-written with Mac Gudgeon), based on the novel by KateGrenville. Moving Out (1983) Street Hero (1984) Breakaway (1990) Mission: Impossible...
the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar. Australian writer KateGrenville, in a chapter of The Writing Book (1990) devoted to using "piles" of...
offered the portrait as a donation to the gallery. Sages painted KateGrenville's portrait Kate in 2012 and the piece is currently under the National Portrait...
In 1988 he married award-winning author KateGrenville, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He and Grenville separated, and Petty then partnered with...
Australia's best-known authors including Thea Astley, Peter Carey, KateGrenville, and Janette Turner Hospital. Her papers are held in the Fryer Library...
(chair) Simon Armitage Candia McWilliam Antony Quinn Fiona Shaw Shortlist KateGrenville The Secret River Canongate M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate Hisham...
convict artist William Buelow Gould's imprisonment at Macquarie Harbour. KateGrenville based the novel The Secret River (2005) on the life of her convict ancestor...
2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-04-24. Creamer, Ella (2024-04-24). "Anne Enright, KateGrenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women's prize for fiction". The...
of In the Evil Day by Peter Temple, 2008 Reader of The Lieutenant by KateGrenville, 2008 Reader of Hurry Up and Meditate by David Michie, 2008 Reader of...
New Zealand. In 2013, Sunderland played in the stage adaptation of KateGrenville’s Booker Prize-shortlisted The Secret River with the Sydney Theatre Company...
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