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
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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