An interview with Tom Keneally
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abstract: Samuel Elliott interviews renowned Australian author Tom Keneally.
encoded: There are few authors like Thomas Keneally. Author, historian, playwright, producer of untold essays, assorted critical writings and historical texts, he is indisputably one of the founding fathers of contemporary Australian literature. Likely best known for his 1982 novel Schindlerâs Ark, which was later adapted into Steven Spielbergâs Oscar-winning Schindlerâs List, Keneally has continued producing a vast, disparate range of work throughout the past five decades, rightfully earning both a luminary and virtuoso status along with countless accolades the world over. Lately, the inimitable author has been penning a crime thriller series set within the colonial formative years of this nation, collaborating with the ambitious undertaking with his daughter, Meg Keneally, highly distinguished in her own right through a long, illustrious career in journalism. Together they bring to life Monsarrat, a sweeping series drawn in part from real-life figures that Keneally has encountered throughout his lifelong research. It bears mentioning that Keneally is one of the countryâs preeminent historians, having dedicated much of his scope of research not only to the formation of Australia, but also to other nations, such as North America (then-president Barack Obama was gifted a signed copy of Keneallyâs biography on Abraham Lincoln during a visit). With Monsarrat, the author has seamlessly blended his encyclopaedic knowledge of our convict forefathers and combined what he dubs daughter Megâs âsharp, journalist mindâ to craft the world of the titular Hugh Monsarrat, the Keneallysâ answer to Sherlock Holmes. The novel chronicles Monsarratâs extraordinary life, an essentially âgoodâ (though indelibly branded as a convict) protagonist. We originally meet him as a scribe for the major of the Port Macquarie penal settlement, entrusted with many sensitive matters pertaining to the running of the site. Life in the settlement is tough and cheap, with such a lawless, godless place proving to …
content: There are few authors like Thomas Keneally. Author, historian, playwright, producer of untold essays, assorted critical writings and historical texts, he is indisputably one of the founding fathers of contemporary Australian literature. Likely best known for his 1982 novel Schindlerâs Ark, which was later adapted into Steven Spielbergâs Oscar-winning Schindlerâs List, Keneally has continued producing a vast, disparate range of work throughout the past five decades, rightfully earning both a luminary and virtuoso status along with countless accolades the world over. Lately, the inimitable author has been penning a crime thriller series set within the colonial formative years of this nation, collaborating with the ambitious undertaking with his daughter, Meg Keneally, highly distinguished in her own right through a long, illustrious career in journalism. Together they bring to life Monsarrat, a sweeping series drawn in part from real-life figures that Keneally has encountered throughout his lifelong research. It bears mentioning that Keneally is one of the countryâs preeminent historians, having dedicated much of his scope of research not only to the formation of Australia, but also to other nations, such as North America (then-president Barack Obama was gifted a signed copy of Keneallyâs biography on Abraham Lincoln during a visit). With Monsarrat, the author has seamlessly blended his encyclopaedic knowledge of our convict forefathers and combined what he dubs daughter Megâs âsharp, journalist mindâ to craft the world of the titular Hugh Monsarrat, the Keneallysâ answer to Sherlock Holmes. The novel chronicles Monsarratâs extraordinary life, an essentially âgoodâ (though indelibly branded as a convict) protagonist. We originally meet him as a scribe for the major of the Port Macquarie penal settlement, entrusted with many sensitive matters pertaining to the running of the site. Life in the settlement is tough and cheap, with such a lawless, godless place proving to …
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