{"id":93420,"date":"2013-06-29T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T08:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=93420"},"modified":"2013-07-01T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:36:41","slug":"sri-lankan-born-michelle-the-winner-of-the-2013-miles-franklin-literary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-born-michelle-the-winner-of-the-2013-miles-franklin-literary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan-Born Michelle: The Winner Of The 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award on why prize-giving is arbitary and Australia is more multiculturally successful than it admits, the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93421\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-born-michelle-the-winner-of-the-2013-miles-franklin-literary-award\/michelle-de-kretser\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93421\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93421\" title=\"Michelle de Kretser\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Michelle-de-Kretser-008-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Michelle-de-Kretser-008-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Michelle-de-Kretser-008.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle de Kretser: the novelist won the Miles Franklin Award 2013 for Questions of Travel. Photograph: guardian.co.uk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Two main stories are told over a 40 year period, both of which weave in elements from De Kretser&#8217;s own history. There is Laura, a restless Australian explorer who ends up working for a travel publisher not unlike Lonely Planet, the company De Kretser worked for before embarking on a writing career, and there is Ravi, growing up in Sri Lanka, De Kretser&#8217;s birth place, who dreams of becoming an IT professional but whose life is undone by the horrors of ethnic violence.&#8221;\u00a0Fiona Gruber writes.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle\u00a0de Kretser left Sri Lanka with her parents in 1972\u00a0when she was 14-year old .<\/p>\n<p>A recent trip to Sri Lanka reminded her of what a society ruled by fear felt like, and the move from Melbourne to Sydney a few years ago gave her fresh eyes to see her adopted country, its wastefulness and beauty, an experience she gives to Ravi in Questions of Travel.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/australia-culture-blog\/2013\/jun\/22\/michelle-kretser-interview-miles-franklin\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":93421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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