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Tom Keneally wins the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize

Tom Keneally wins the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize
November 11, 2022

SMSA are thrilled to congratulate Tom Keneally on winning the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize (Adult Category) with his book Corporal Hitler’s Pistol (2021).

 

Tom Keneally wins the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize (Adult Category) with Corporal Hitler’s Pistol

SMSA are thrilled to congratulate Tom Keneally on winning the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize (Adult Category) with his book Corporal Hitler’s Pistol (2021).  The ARA Historical Novel Prize award is the highlight of the History Novel Society Australasia’s suite of literary contests.

The 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize Judging Panel described the Corporal Hitler’s Pistol as a “richly imagined and vivid novel that moves the reader skilfully from WW1 to the Irish Civil War, from rural Kempsey to Sydney and County Kerry during the first half and more of the 20th Century.” (Historical Novel Society Australasia, https://hnsa.org.au/2022-ara-historical-novel-prize-adult-category-shortlist/).

If you are interested in reading Tom Keneally’s 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize Corporal Hitler’s Pistol we are delighted to offer the novel as part of our library collection here at SMSA.

To borrow it from the SMSA Library click here

Learn more about the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize here

Read ‘Thomas Keneally wins ARA Historical Novel Prize with new book’, Helena Burke, 21 October 2022, ABC News

Read ‘Keneally wins historical fiction prize and fires a shot for writers’, Jason Steger, 20 October 2022, Sydney Morning Herald

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