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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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culture · Australian novelist (born 1935) · writer · playwright · novelist · actor · author · also Thomas Keneally, Thomas Michael Keneally, Tom Keneally, Mick Keneally, T. Keneally, Bernard Coyle
Born 7 October 1935 · Q298334
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2024· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
The Irish Times: Thomas Keneally: ‘I think all of us carry with us a penumbra of ghosts’
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The Guardian: Thomas Keneally: ‘At North Head I hear the song of the dead and relish my place in the human stream’
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2022· 3 entries
Jewish Journal: Thomas Keneally on 40 Years Since Writing ‘Schindler’s Ark’
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The Guardian: Thomas Keneally shares $50,000 book prize with fellow nominees
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Thomas Keneally wins ARA Historical Novel Prize with new book
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Guardian Australia reads: Thomas Keneally on the fracturing of our federation
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Kevin Rudd, Thomas Keneally, Wendy Harmer, Tim Winton and others on their birds of the year
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The Guardian: The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Keneally review – Australia according to early man
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2017· 4 entries
The Guardian: Thomas Keneally: death is not the fly in the cosmic ointment. It is the cosmic ointment
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The Guardian: Thomas Keneally reads William Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris – video
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The Guardian: Crimes of the Father by Thomas Keneally review – something rotten in Catholicism
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The Guardian: Thomas Keneally: 'Cultural appropriation is dangerous'
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2013· 1 entry
The Washington Post: THE DAUGHTERS OF MARS by Thomas Keneally
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Colin Roderick Award (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
The Australian postal service issued a stamp in his honour
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Helmerich Award (2007).
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That what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began
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2006· 1 entry
Peter Pierce, Professor of Australian Literature, James Cook University, wrote:
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2004· 1 entry
Gave the sixth annual Tom Brock Lecture
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1996· 1 entry
The State Library of New South Wales, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, purchased some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally, from a private collector, and they are now housed there
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (1983).
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Keneally was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for Schindler's Ark (1982).
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Inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor
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1980· 1 entry
Keneally met Pfefferberg in the latter's shop, and learning that Keneally was a novelist, Pfefferberg showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler, including the original list itself
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Barbara Ramsden Award (1975).
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“Peter Thompson: Was one of the things that really attracted you to the story, the obvious moral ambiguity of Schindler?Tom Keneally: Absolutely, it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is that good will emerged from the most unlikely places.”
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1973).
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Awarded Heinemann Award (1973).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Miles Franklin Literary Award for Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bring Larks and Heroes (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
And they had two daughters, Margaret and Jane
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1962· 1 entry
Under the pseudonym Bernard Coyle
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1952· 1 entry
Under Brother James Athanasius McGlade, and won a Commonwealth scholarship
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1942· 1 entry
Schindler's Ark (1982), winner of the Booker Prize, later released and filmed as Schindler's List
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-10-07.
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1911· 1 entry
Only to return to fight in the revolution
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