Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1957. She migrated to Australia with her family in 1972, at the age of 14, and studied French at the University of Melbourne before completing a master's degree in Paris.

She worked as an editor at Lonely Planet and was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, appeared in 1999, followed by The Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog, Questions of Travel, The Life to Come, Springtime and Theory and Practice.

She has won the Miles Franklin Award twice, for Questions of Travel and The Life to Come.