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Kristina Olsson

Kristina Olsson

Biography

Kristina’s non-fiction work Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir won the 2013 Queensland Literary Award, the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Kibble Literary Award. It has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Stella Prize, Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award and The Courier-Mail Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. Kristina’s journalism and non-fiction have been published in the Australian, the Courier-Mail, the Sunday Telegraph and Griffith REVIEW. She has worked extensively as a teacher of creative writing and journalism at tertiary level and in the community, and as an advisor to government. She lives in Brisbane. Her latest novel is Shell.