Kate Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is an Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney, University of Colorado, and University of Technology, Sydney.
Grenville was one of three children born to Kenneth Grenville Gee, a lawyer and later judge, and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney, she worked in the film industry, mostly edit...
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Kate Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is an Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney, University of Colorado, and University of Technology, Sydney.
Grenville was one of three children born to Kenneth Grenville Gee, a lawyer and later judge, and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney, she worked in the film industry, mostly editing documentaries at Film Australia. In 1976, she went to the UK on a working holiday for six months, and ended up being away for seven years. She lived in London and Paris, and wrote fiction while supporting herself by doing film-editing, writing, and secretarial jobs. In 1980 she went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to do a Masters degree in creative writing. She returned to Australia in 1983 and became a sub-editor at SBS Television in the subtitling department. She won a literary grant in 1986 and left SBS to pursue her writing....
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