Sulari Gentill (8 works by) (a.k.a. S. D. Gentill )
Born: Established:
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Sri Lanka
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South Asia South and East Asia Asia ;
Gender: Female

BiographyHistory

Sulari Gentill describes herself in the following way: 'I'm Australian. I was born in Sri Lanka, learned to speak English in Zambia and grew up in Brisbane. I went to University to study Astrophysics, graduated in Law and after years of corporate contracts, realized I just wanted to tell stories.'

Gentill's literary achievements include being commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 2008 Jim Hamilton Award, longlisted for the Hachette/QLD Writers' Centre Australian Manuscript Development Program for fiction writers, and shortlisted for the 2008 New Holland Publishers and NSW Writers Centre Genre Fiction Award. She has also been awarded a Varuna Fellowship.

Source: Sulari Gentill's website, http://www.sularigentill.com/
Sighted: 12/10/2010

Awards for Works

A Decline in Prophets , 2011 novel single work 'In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt. Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania's chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits. The elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension but civility prevails... until people start to die. Then things get a bit awkward.

'And Rowland Sinclair finds himself unwittingly in the centre of it all. "I'm afraid, Sinclair has a habit of being in the wrong place every possible time. I would think twice about standing next to him." "God forbid, Rowland, you should return home without some sort of scandal... leading some kind of insane cult!".(Trove)
2012 winner Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
A Few Right Thinking Men , 2010 novel single work 'In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal. Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world... of wealth, culture & impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions & friends... a poet, a painter & a brazen sculptress. Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics... until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary & treasonous conspiracy.' (From Publisher's website)
2011 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
2011 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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