K.M. Kruimink K.M. Kruimink i(19090219 works by) (a.k.a. Kate Kruimink)
Born: Established: Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

K.M. Kruimink was born in Tasmania and raised in the Huon Valley.

In 2020, she won the Vogel Award for an historical novel set in 1840s Tasmania.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Heartsease Sydney : Picador , 2024 27815663 2024 single work novel

'I saw my mother for a long time after she died. I would see her out windows, or in the corner of my eye. Always in the periphery, always a dim blur, but unmistakably my mother, the herness skating through every line and flicker.

'Charlotte ('Lot') and Ellen ('Nelly') are sisters who were once so close a Venn diagram of the two would have formed a circle. But a great deal has changed since their mother's death, years before. Clever, beautiful, gentle Lot has been unfailingly dutiful - basically a disaster of an older sister for much younger Nelly, still haunted by their mother in her early thirties.

'When the pair meet at a silent retreat in a strange old house in the Tasmanian countryside, the spectres of memory are unleashed.

'Heartsease is a sad, sly and darkly comic story about the weight of grief and the ways in which family cleave to us, for better and for worse. It's an account of love and ghosts so sharp it will leave you with paper cuts.' (Publication summary)

2025 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Fiction
y separately published work icon A Treacherous Country Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2020 19090323 2020 single work novel historical fiction

'Set in the 1800s, Gabriel Fox is newly arrived to Van Diemen’s Land from England. Drawn by the promise of his heart’s desire and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabrielle is on a quest to find a woman called Maryanne Maginn. His guide, a cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction
2021 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2021 longlisted The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2020 winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript)
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