Keneally has been short-listed for the Booker Prize on 4 occasions: in 1972 for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest in 1975 and Confederates in 1979, before winning the prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark (the novel was later renamed Schindler’s List). Born in Sydney in 1935, Thomas Keneally is considered as one of the most successful modern Australian writers. In March 2009, the PrimeMinister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally’s biography Lincoln to President Barack Obama as a state gift. It subsequently won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Adapted screenplay and Spielberg’s first Oscar for Best Director. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List on which he initially collaborated on the screenplay. He is best known for writing Schindler’s Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. Thomas Michael Keneally, is an Australian novelist, playwright, andessayist. The story is set in Ireland during the Potato Famine and told in such a way that only Tom Keneally could. At EPIC MOVIE CAPITAL We are very proud to be working alongside the team at GLOBAL WATCH FILMS on the production of 'THE GREAT HUNGER'.
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