Thomas Keneally

1935–

Australian novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer born in Sydney. He trained for the Catholic priesthood at St Patrick’s Seminary, Manly, but left before ordination, and worked as a schoolteacher and as a lecturer at the University of New England. Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete both won the Miles Franklin Award, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker. He was founding chair of the Australian Republican Movement. Schindler’s Ark, based on the wartime rescue of Jews by Oskar Schindler, won the 1982 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Thomas Keneally’s life

Works

• Schindler's Ark (1982)

Prizes

• Schindler's Ark — The Booker Prize 1982: Winner, Shortlist