Olson Nature Writing Award, and the 2019 Queensland Literary Award. 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.

Interest in Polynesia is not much in fashion nowadays, except for using the islands as an exemplar of the claimed, always imminent yet never arriving, effects of global warming. (Christina Thompson) written by Charles Haywood. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia is her second novel and was published March 12th, 2019 by Harper. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Christina Thompson) Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. This book was a finalist for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 1 Career edit Christina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outside of Boston. Christina Thompson is the author of two books: SEA PEOPLE: THE PUZZLE OF POLYNESIA, winner of the Australian Prime Minister's Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the NSW Premier’s General History Award, and COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL AND EAT YOU ALL, finalist for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the William Saroyan. It is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand. 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. 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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