9 Quotes & Sayings By Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme was born in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in 1975. She is an author, poet and musician. Described as "a voice of her generation," Keri Hulme writes about the beauty of her home country, Australia. Her first novel, The Bone People, won the Miles Franklin Award for best first novel in 2000 Read more

She has since published three novels, The Blind Assassin (2002), An Angel at My Table (2004) and The Book of Memory (2009). The Blind Assassin won the Miles Franklin Award for Best First Novel in 2002. The Bone People won the Miles Franklin Award for Best First Novel in 2000. An Angel at My Table won the Miles Franklin Award for Best First Novel in 2004. The Book of Memory won the Miles Franklin Award for Best First Novel in 2009. Her fourth novel, The Translator is published 2018 with Harper Collins publishers. Keri Hulme says that she writes with no regard to genre or literary convention. Her novels have been described as being "boldly original", "often beautiful", "generous", and "moving".

Her writing style has been compared to that of Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker. She was elected a member of Aosdána (Irish Academy of Poetry) in 2004 and has received awards from both the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2003) and State Literary Awards (2004). She was awarded Australian Poetry Prize (2005), Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (2005), NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2005), Scribe-Australian Poetry Book Society Award (2006), Australian Publishers Association Gold Merit awards (2007) and Premiers' Literary Awards (2008). She also received the 2008 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian Literature While Female Writer of the Year for her body of work including The Bone People which was shortlisted for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Medal 2005; winner of the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards; winner of the 2007 QLD Premier's Literary Award; winner of Aosdána award - Honorary Membership 2009; winner of Premiers' literary awards 2008; winner state poetry prize 2009; winner literary award 2010; Aosdánna award - Honorary Membership 2011.

Her awards include: Miles Franklin Award 2012 - best first novel 'The Bone People'; Honourable Mention Creative Nonfiction 2012-Alice Springs National Writers

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A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. Keri Hulme
She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of...
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She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water. Keri Hulme
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Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth... Keri Hulme
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The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons. Keri Hulme
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The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. Keri Hulme
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I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood. Keri Hulme
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Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end. Keri Hulme
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Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why. Keri Hulme