Christina Thompson
Christina Thompson | |
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Born | Switzerland |
Citizenship | Australia and United States |
Christina Thompson is best known for her book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, which won the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction.[1]
Career[]
Christina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outside of Boston. She received her Bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth College[2] in 1981 and graduated with a Ph.D. in English from University of Melbourne in 1990.[3] From June 1994 to March 1998 she was editor of Meanjin, one of Australia's leading literary journals.[4]
She currently teaches at Harvard University Extension.[5] She has also been the editor of Harvard Review since 2000.[6]
Her first book, a memoir called , was published July 22, 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Māori of New Zealand.[7] This book was a finalist for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.[8]
is her second book and was published March 12, 2019 by Harper. This book won the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction,[9] the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award,[10] and the 2019 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards. It was a finalist for the 2020 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award,[11] the 2019 Mountbatten Maritime Award, the 2019 [12] and the 2019 Queensland Literary Award.[13]
Her fellowships include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award,[14]a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.
Bibliography[]
Books[]
- Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All (2008, Bloomsbury)[15][16][17][18][19]
- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (2019, Harper)[20][21][22][23][24]
Articles[]
- "Skewing Male," Daily Scholar, Nov. 14, 2020
- “Some Kind of Kin,” Orion, Summer 2019, vol. 38, no. 2
- “Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Pacific Voyage,” BBC World Histories, 16, June/July 2019
- “The Ritual of Renewal,” Daily Scholar, Apr. 10, 2019
- “On Being an Outsider,” New York Times, Mar. 29, 2019
- “Down the Research Rat Hole,” JSTOR Daily, Dec. 20, 2018
- “Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love,” Paris Review Daily, May 27, 2013
- "Prose Matters,” Essay Daily, Sep. 27, 2013
References[]
- ^ Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure (2020-12-10). "2020 winners announced today #PMLitAwards". www.arts.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "Christina Thompson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Thompson, Christina Abbott (1990), The paradigm journey to the paradigm elsewhere: Studies in South Pacific romance, retrieved 19 May 2021
- ^ "Christina Thompson". LinkedIn.
- ^ "Christina Thompson". Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "About". Harvard Review. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all: An Unlikely Love Story by Christina Thompson". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ ""Q&A With Christina Thompson"". ReadMoreCO. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ Lewis, Kathryn (2020-12-10). "'I was tired of being told where I belong': Poet's big literary award". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Shortlist - PBK". The Phi Beta Kappa Society. 2021-05-17.
- ^ "SONWA". Northland College. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ Mem: 9412840. "Queensland Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ "National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $1.7 Million for Public Scholars". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
- ^ McCulloch, Alison (2008-07-20). "I Married a Maori". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Stead, C. K. (2008-08-15). "Review: Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ "'Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All' by Christina Thompson". The Monthly. 2008-09-02. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Rosenbloom, Joseph. "A tale of love and exploration". Boston.com. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL AND EAT YOU... | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Conniff, Richard (2019-03-15). "'Sea People' Review: The Globe's Greatest Explorers". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ "'Sea People' Examines The Origins And History Of Polynesia". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Winchester, Simon (2019-05-14). "How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific's Mysteries". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ "'Sea People' Examines The Origins And History Of Polynesia". KPBS Public Media. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Upchurch, Michael (April 4, 2019). "How one people came to inhabit 10 million square miles of the Pacific". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
External links[]
- Australian non-fiction writers
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Harvard University people
- Meanjin people
- Living people