Michelle de Kretser

1 month ago | artshub.com.au | Dylin Hardcastle |Mykaela Saunders |Melanie Cheng |Michelle de Kretser |Thuy On

Now in its 30th year, the Stella Prize has just announced its longlist for 2025, appropriately enough in the surrounds of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden at the Adelaide Festival as part of Writers’ Week. This year the Stella – worth $60,000 – received over 180 entries, with the judging panel comprising Astrid Edwards (chair), Debra Dank, Leah Jing McIntosh, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Rick Morton.

Nov 19, 2024 | readingmattersblog.com | Michelle de Kretser

Fiction – paperback; Text Publishing; 183 pages; 2024. Michelle de Kretser’s new book, Theory & Practice, includes a revealing quote that sheds light on its structure and style:An artist once told me that she no longer wanted to make art that looked like art. I was discovering that I no longer wanted to write novels that read like novels (page 14). This sentiment echoes her approach in her previous book, Scary Monsters (2021), which also played with form.

Oct 24, 2024 | killyourdarlings.com.au | Michelle de Kretser

At the start of 1986 I moved from Sydney to Melbourne. I was twenty-four. The first thing I did in Melbourne was buy a vintage dress. The dress was made of lace, and had cap sleeves, an empire waist and a fitted knee-length skirt. It dated from the early sixties, when thousands of its kind must have been made. Now fashion had plucked it from oblivion and filled it with warm young bodies again. Powder-blue and rose and coffee-cream variants existed, but my dress was Intellectual Black.

Nov 29, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Michelle de Kretser |Brigitta Olabus

A weekly show about the books we love and the stories behind them. Hear the best writers from Australia and around the world talk about their lives and their work. How to listen? Michael speaks with Michelle and Shirley Hazzard's biographer Brigitta Olabus about one of Australia's most underrated and underread authors.

Apr 23, 2023 | bigissue.com | Michelle de Kretser

Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser is out now (Atlantic, £9.99). It is the winner of 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year – Fiction. You can buy it from The Big Issue shop on Bookshop.org, which helps to support The Big Issue and independent bookshops.