Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet.
Career
editKrien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including The Monthly, The Age, The Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays,[1] Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.[2]
Krien has written poetry for a number of years. Her poem, "The Last Broadcasters", won the 2008 Val Vallis Award and "Horses" was included in The Best Australian Poems 2010.[3]
In 2014 she became only the second woman to win the £25,000 (A$47,000) William Hill Sports Book of the Year award since its inception 1989.[4]
Krien has written two contributions to the Quarterly Essay — "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals"[5] and "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock".[6] In 2019 she joined the judging panel for the Horne Prize.[7] As of 2019 she was based in Melbourne, Victoria.[8]
Awards and recognition
editKrien was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.[9]
- Winner, Val Vallis Award, 2008[10]
- Winner, People's Choice Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2011, for Into the Woods[11]
- Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, 2011, for Into the Woods[11]
- Winner, Harry Williams Award for a Literary Work Advancing Public Debate, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, 2011, for Into the Woods
- Winner, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2014, for Night Games[12]
- Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2014, for Night Games[2]
- Winner, Davitt Award for True Crime, 2014, for Night Games[13]
- Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2020, for Act of Grace[14]
- Longlisted, Miles Franklin Award, 2020, for Act of Grace[15]
- Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award, 2020, for Act of Grace[16]
Publications
editNonfiction
edit- Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests, Black Inc, 2010 ISBN 978-1-86395-487-7
- Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Black Inc, 2013 ISBN 9781863956017
- Booze Territory, Black Inc, 2015 ISBN 9781863957687
Fiction
edit- Act of Grace, Black Inc, 2019 ISBN 9781863959551
References
edit- ^ The best Australian essays 2015. Williamson, Geordie,, Smee, Sebastian., Crawford, Anwen., Tumarkin, Maria M., Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-, Wheatley, Nadia. Collingwood Vic, Australia. 2 November 2015. ISBN 978-1-86395-777-9. OCLC 913499733.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b "Shortlist 2014 · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ The best Australian poems 2010. Adamson, Robert, 1943-. Melbourne. ISBN 978-1-921825-70-5. OCLC 891652170.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Dugdale, John (27 November 2014). "Anna Krien's Night Games wins sports book of the year prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ Krien, Anna. Us and them : on the importance of animals. Collingwood, Victoria. ISBN 978-1-921870-56-9. OCLC 893683030.
- ^ Krien, Anna. (2017). Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye : Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock. Collingwood: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-925435-73-3. OCLC 992580413.
- ^ "Lebeter wins Horne Prize 2019 for essay on climate change and biodiversity". Books+Publishing. 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ On, Thuy (28 September 2019). "The focused eye of journalist Anna Krien". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Past Award Recipients". Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "True Stories: Writing History - Conference | National Library Of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 8 February 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Foray into sport's underbelly wins top award". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing". The New Daily. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 12 May 2020. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.