Books by Kate Kruimink
Kate Kruimink is a writer from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country, won the 2020 Vogel/Australian’s Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted for the UK’s the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. In 2021, she was one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists. Her second novel, Heartsease, was published mid-2024 with Picador. Kate was also announced the inaugural joint winner of the Weatherglass Books Novella Prize in the UK with her novella, Astraea.
“The novella is centred on a girl who is so traumatised she’s consciously cut herself off from memory and from anticipation of the future. This is her way of surviving: she focuses very deliberately on her present moment. So the entire novella is on this small wooden ship in the middle of some ocean, presented through the eyes of someone who is wilfully denying herself any context. This means she has to piece together who she is in relation to all these people almost anew.” Read more...
The Best Australian Historical Fiction
Kate Kruimink, Novelist
Interviews with Kate Kruimink
The Best Australian Historical Fiction, recommended by Kate Kruimink
Historical novels hold a mirror up to contemporary society, says Kate Kruimink—the novelist and joint winner of the inaugural Weatherglass Novella Prize. Here, she recommends five fascinating works of historical fiction from her home country, Australia.
Interviews where books by Kate Kruimink were recommended
The Best Australian Historical Fiction, recommended by Kate Kruimink
Historical novels hold a mirror up to contemporary society, says Kate Kruimink—the novelist and joint winner of the inaugural Weatherglass Novella Prize. Here, she recommends five fascinating works of historical fiction from her home country, Australia.
