Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AOis an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1935
CountryAustralia
children definite
Coitus is random, children are definite.
nice reading past
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
people finance tragic
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
educational parent church
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.
fighting gang used
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
lying lists rounds
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
mother writing narrators
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
sports school australia
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
lasts becoming steps
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
christian brother found
Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
mother names
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
jesus wall heart
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.
men years may
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.
sorry school home
But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.