The Australian Council has
announced it will award the novelist Thomas Keneally for his lifetime
achievement in literature. Keneally is one of ten Australians to be recognised
by the council for outstanding contributions to the arts landscape in
2015. The Australian author of The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The Widow and
her Hero and Schindler’s Ark for which he
won the Man Booker prize in 1982, will be presented with the award at a
ceremony in Sydney
on March 19th. (from The Guardian)
In an interview on Radio
National the 79 year old described his craft as an ‘ageless activity’ and
although he doesn’t know of anyone over 80 to have written a work of
significance, he said…….:I’m going to do my best to be the first, I’ll at least
shake the three”.
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