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Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet

Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet.

Career

Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including The Monthly, The Age, The Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays, Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.

Krien has written poetry for a number of years. Her poem, "The Last Broadcasters", won the 2008 Val Vallis Award and "Horses" was included in The Best Australian Poems 2010.

In 2014 she became only the second woman to win the £25,000 (A$47,000) William Hill Sports Book of the Year award since its inception 1989.

Krien has written two contributions to the Quarterly Essay — "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals" and "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock". In 2019 she joined the judging panel for the Horne Prize. As of 2019 she was based in Melbourne, Victoria.

Awards and recognition

Krien was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.

Publications

Nonfiction

Fiction

References

  1. The best Australian essays 2015. Williamson, Geordie,, Smee, Sebastian., Crawford, Anwen., Tumarkin, Maria M., Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-, Wheatley, Nadia. Collingwood Vic, Australia. 2 November 2015. ISBN 978-1-86395-777-9. OCLC 913499733.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "Shortlist 2014 · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  3. The best Australian poems 2010. Adamson, Robert, 1943-. Melbourne. ISBN 978-1-921825-70-5. OCLC 891652170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. Dugdale, John (27 November 2014). "Anna Krien's Night Games wins sports book of the year prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. Krien, Anna. Us and them : on the importance of animals. Collingwood, Victoria. ISBN 978-1-921870-56-9. OCLC 893683030.
  6. Krien, Anna. (2017). Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye : Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock. Collingwood: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-925435-73-3. OCLC 992580413.
  7. "Lebeter wins Horne Prize 2019 for essay on climate change and biodiversity". Books+Publishing. 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  8. On, Thuy (28 September 2019). "The focused eye of journalist Anna Krien". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  9. "Past Award Recipients". Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  10. "True Stories: Writing History - Conference | National Library Of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 8 February 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  12. "Foray into sport's underbelly wins top award". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  13. "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing". The New Daily. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  14. "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  15. "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 12 May 2020. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  16. "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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