Australian-American journal editor and author
Christina Thompson
Born Switzerland
Citizenship Australia and
United States
Christina Thompson is best known for her book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia , which won the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction.
[1]
Career
Christina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outside of Boston. She received her bachelor's degree in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from
Dartmouth College
[2] in 1981 and her Ph.D. in English from
University of Melbourne in 1990.
[3] From 1994 to 1998 she was editor of
Meanjin , one of Australia's leading literary journals.
[4]
The editor of
Harvard Review since 2000,
[5] she teaches in the Writing Program at
Harvard University Extension ,
[6] where she was awarded the James E. Conway Teaching Writing Award in 2008.
Her first book, a memoir called
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All , was published in July 2008 by
Bloomsbury USA . The story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the
Māori of
New Zealand ,
[7] it was a finalist for the 2009
NSW Premier's Literary Award and the 2010
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing .
[8]
Her second book,
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia , is a history of Polynesian voyaging. Published March 12, 2019 by
Harper , it won the 2020
Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction,
[9] the 2020
Victorian Premier's Literary Award ,
[10] and the 2019
New South Wales Premier's History Awards , and was a finalist for the 2020
Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award,
[11] the 2019
Mountbatten Maritime Award , the 2019
Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
[12] and the 2019
Queensland Literary Award .
[13]
Her awards and fellowships include a Public Scholar Award from the
National Endowment for the Humanities ,
[14] a Literature Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts , and grants from
Australia Council , Arts Victoria, the Institute of International Education, and the Australian Federation of University Women.
She is married to Tauwhitu Parangi, a member of the Ngāti Rēhia hapu of the Ngāpuhi iwi of Aotearoa/New Zealand, with whom she has three sons.
Bibliography
Books
Articles
"Skewing Male," Daily Scholar , Nov. 14, 2020
“Some Kind of Kin,” Orion , Summer 2019, vol. 38, no. 2
“Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Pacific Voyage,” BBC World Histories , 16, June/July 2019
“The Ritual of Renewal,” Daily Scholar , Apr. 10, 2019
“On Being an Outsider,” New York Times , Mar. 29, 2019
“Down the Research Rat Hole,” JSTOR Daily , Dec. 20, 2018
“Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love,” Paris Review Daily , May 27, 2013
"Prose Matters,” Essay Daily , Sep. 27, 2013
References
^ Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure (10 December 2020).
"2020 winners announced today #PMLitAwards" . www.arts.gov.au . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
^
"Christina Thompson" . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories .
Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^ Thompson, Christina Abbott (1990),
The paradigm journey to the paradigm elsewhere: Studies in South Pacific romance , retrieved 19 May 2021
^
"Christina Thompson" .
LinkedIn .
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"About" . Harvard Review .
Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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"Christina Thompson" . Harvard University .
Archived from the original on 4 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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"Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all: An Unlikely Love Story by Christina Thompson" .
The Times .
ISSN
0140-0460 . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
^
" "Q&A With Christina Thompson" " . ReadMoreCO . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
^ Lewis, Kathryn (10 December 2020).
" 'I was tired of being told where I belong': Poet's big literary award" . The Canberra Times . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020" . The Wheeler Centre . Archived from
the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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"Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Shortlist - PBK" . The Phi Beta Kappa Society . 17 May 2021.
Archived from the original on 1 October 2020.
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"SONWA" . Northland College .
Archived from the original on 15 April 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
^ Mem: 9412840.
"Queensland Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 17 May 2021 . {{
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"National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $1.7 Million for Public Scholars" . The National Endowment for the Humanities . Retrieved 19 May 2021 .
^ McCulloch, Alison (20 July 2008).
"I Married a Maori" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^ Stead, C. K. (15 August 2008).
"Review: Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson" . the Guardian . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^
" 'Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All' by Christina Thompson" . The Monthly . 2 September 2008.
Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^ Rosenbloom, Joseph.
"A tale of love and exploration" . Boston.com . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^
COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL AND EAT YOU... | Kirkus Reviews .
^ Conniff, Richard (15 March 2019).
" 'Sea People' Review: The Globe's Greatest Explorers" . Wall Street Journal .
ISSN
0099-9660 . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^
" 'Sea People' Examines The Origins And History Of Polynesia" . NPR.org . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^ Winchester, Simon (14 May 2019).
"How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific's Mysteries" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
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" 'Sea People' Examines The Origins And History Of Polynesia" . KPBS Public Media . Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
^ Upchurch, Michael (4 April 2019).
"How one people came to inhabit 10 million square miles of the Pacific" . The Boston Globe .
Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2021 .
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