Writer Thomas Keneally
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).