![]() ![]() This novel won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the 2019 NSW Premier’s General History Award and was a finalist for the 2020 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, the 2019 Mountbatten Maritime Award, the 2019 Sigurd F. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia is her second novel and was published March 12th, 2019 by Harper. This book was a finalist for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand. Her first novel Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All was published July 22nd, 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. She has also been the editor of Harvard Review since 2000 She currently teaches at Harvard University Extension. ![]() From June 1994 to March 1998 she was editor of Meanjin, one of Australia's leading literary journals. in English from University of Melbourne in 1990. Christina Thompson is best known for her book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, which won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for nonfiction.Ĭhristina Thompson received her Bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth College in 1981. ![]()
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