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Writer Thomas Keneally

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The history of colonial Sydney

Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s best loved writers, known for both his fiction and non-fiction works. He won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s ark, later made into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s list by Steven Spielberg. He has recently published two volumes on Australian history: Australians: Origins to Eureka (2009) and Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011).