Author Krissy Kneen
Photograph by Anthony Mullins

An interview with Krissy Kneen

May 2021, no. 431

Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, Wintering, Eating My Grandmother, and Affection. Her latest book is the memoir The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.

                

 

The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen by Krissy Kneen review – memoir as both fairytale and defiant truth

Kneen weaves a magical and honest story about finding freedom but also about naming the things that shape us

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Bec Kavanagh
Thu 13 May 2021 18.30 BST

In the centre of a page without adornment, before the opening chapter of the book, a small paragraph might almost be overlooked: “When I was a child my family won the lotto and used the money to move to the middle of nowhere in central Queensland to make fairytale characters of papier-mâché.” It would be an outlandish set-up even for a work of fiction, let alone a memoir, but this small incredible opening is a speck compared to the extraordinary story that unfolds.