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          Born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Michelle de Kretser emigrated to Australia when she was Her acclaimed first novel, The Rose Grower, was published.!

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        5. Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka.

          6. Michelle de Kretser

          Australian novelist (born 1957)

          Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14.[1] Her father was Oswald Leslie De Kretser III, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.[2]

          Education and literary career

          De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo,[3] in Melbourne at Elwood College, and in Paris.

          She worked as an editor for a travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, The Rose Grower. Her second novel, The Hamilton Case, was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (in the UK) and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific).

          Her third novel, The Lost Dog, was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

          From 1989 to 1992, she was a founding editor of the Australian Women