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Quote of the day by Thomas Keneally: 'In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always...'

Quote of the day by Thomas Keneally: Renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally, celebrated for 'Schindler's Ark', offers a poignant perspective on his homeland. His quote likens Australia to Catholicism, acknowledging its flaws and harshness, yet affirming an enduring, irresistible pull. This sentiment underscores a deep, complex affection for the nation,…

The Economic Times

Our family has a unique approach to grievances: ‘If you make peace, you heap coals of fire on your enemy’s head’

Advice about how to deal with barbs and those who throw them has trickled down from the Bible and through the generations for Meg Keneally and her father Thomas

The Guardian - AU

Furore sparked by Jamie Oliver children’s book cultural appropriation opens wider debate

Another novel written by a UK author has been withdrawn as publishers and booksellers grapple with the issues of First Nations culture and history as plot points

The Guardian - AU

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Novelist and poet Paul Bailey dies at 87

The twice Booker prize-shortlisted author was best known for his novels, which included At the Jerusalem and Gabriel’s Lament

The Guardian - UK

King Charles is not the adversary of an Australian republic – but hasn’t the time of the crown gone?

Our monarch is gracing his dominion to see us, his subjects, in a land that still pretends we are not a republic at heart

The Guardian - AU

Five of the best books shaped by lists

From the poptastic Top 10s of High Fidelity to the life-saving work of Oskar Schindler, here are some of the best tabulations in literature

The Guardian - UK

Thomas Keneally: ‘When I met Barbara Kingsolver I burst into geriatric tears’

The Australian author on wise words from his mother, being blurbed by Graham Greene, and why it’s best to read Dostoyevsky when you’re 80

The Guardian - UK

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I mourn the loss of Australia’s Indigenous voice vote – and won’t forgive the media’s mendacity

The polls had been favourable until a brutal press campaign kicked in against this kindly, long-overdue change, says novelist Thomas Keneally

The Guardian - UK

The astonishing lies of the no campaign burn like lurid rockets in our sky. We must not go saying no

Only a yes vote opens the gate that has been closed for 250 years

The Guardian - AU

Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

The Guardian - UK

Possession and devotion inform Sarah Krasnostein's compelling reinterpretation of Peter Carey's art

Sarah Krasnostein’s On Peter Carey is the 12th instalment of Black Inc.’s highly readable series, Writers on Writers. The series is nicely conceived, as it pitches Australian writers not just against each other, but across a generational divide.

The Conversation

Thomas Keneally: ‘At North Head I hear the song of the dead and relish my place in the human stream’

Walking along the ancient Sydney coastline, the author ponders whether there may be not only a joie de vivre, but also a joie de mort

The Guardian - AU

Thomas Keneally shares $50,000 book prize with fellow nominees

The 87-year-old Australian author, who won the ARA Historical Novel prize, says he ‘wanted to help some of the other writers’ because of how hard it is to make a living as a writer

The Guardian - AU

Thomas Keneally wins ARA Historical Novel Prize with new book

Schindler's Ark author Thomas Keneally did not want to keep the ARA Historical Novel Prize money for himself and have it go towards paying for "incontinence pads".

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