Biographie
Thomas Keneally
- Date de naissance
- Nom de naissanceThomas Michael Keneally
- Surnom
- Tom
- Thomas Keneally est né le 7 octobre 1935 à Sydney, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, Australie. Il est scénariste et acteur. Il est connu pour La Liste de Schindler (1993), The Great Hunger et Silver City (1984). Il est marié avec Judith Martin. Lui et Judith Martin ont deux enfants.
- ConjointJudith Martin(1965 - présent) (2 enfants)
- Oskar Schindler's story went relatively unknown for several decades before Keneally wrote it. It was only after emigrating to America that Leopold Pfefferberg (one of the Schindlerjuden) began talking to any author he could find about publishing the story. All were unreceptive. Thomas Keneally only happened to meet Pfefferberg by chance, and upon learning that he was a Holocaust survivor, immediately agreed to write their story.
- He is of Irish descent.
- Is an avid fan of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles rugby league team in Sydney's Northern Beaches.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 230-237. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Literature.
- Keneally's home in Sydney's Northern Beaches has its own trophy room. In it, hangs pictures, plaques and signed shirts of his beloved Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles rugby league team. He remarked, "Now, these people really are involved in serious magic. Forget the Booker Prize (which he won in 1982 for his book, Schindler's Ark). If Cliffy Lyons (Sea Eagles legend) comes up to me and says, you know, 'G'day, Tom, mate. Writing much these days?' Well, that's enough for me. I'm a happy man."
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