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Kristel Thornell
Kristel Thornell was born in Sydney and has lived in Italy, Mexico, Canada, Finland, the United States and France, where she is now based. She has degrees in Italian Studies and En...view moreKristel Thornell was born in Sydney and has lived in Italy, Mexico, Canada, Finland, the United States and France, where she is now based. She has degrees in Italian Studies and English, and a PhD from the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. She has published short fiction, poetry, reviews, essays and the novel Night Street (2010), for which she co-won the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and won the Dobbie Literary Award and the Barbara Ramsden Award. She was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards and was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists in 2011. Her second novel, On the Blue Train, was published in 2016.view less