Kate Grenville
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14 October 1950 (age 66) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist, teacher of creative writing |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | General fiction, historical fiction, short stories |
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Kate Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, biography, books about the writing process, and most recently a non-fiction book, The Case Against Fragrance. Her website is kategrenville.com.
Her books have been awarded many prizes in Australia, as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Britain's Orange Prize. The Secret River was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Her novels have been published all over the world and been translated into many languages. Two have been made into feature films.
Kate Grenville was born in Sydney in 1950, one of three children born to Kenneth Grenville Gee, a District Court judge and barrister; and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist. She was educated at Cremorne Girls High School, the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and the University of Colorado (MA). After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney, Grenville worked in the film industry, mostly editing documentaries at Film Australia. She has also been a teacher of creative writing. Between 1976 and 1980 she lived in London and Paris, and wrote fiction while supporting herself by doing film-editing, writing, and secretarial jobs. In 1980 she went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to do a master's degree in creative writing. She returned to Australia in 1983 and became a sub-editor at SBS Television in the subtitling department. She won a literary grant in 1986 and left SBS to pursue her writing. Since the early 1990s she has been an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney.
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