Her second book, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, is a history of Polynesian voyaging. The story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Māori of New Zealand, it was a finalist for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. 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 editor of Harvard Review since 2000, she teaches in the Writing Program at Harvard University Extension, where she was awarded the James E. From 1994 to 1998 she was editor of Meanjin, one of Australia's leading literary journals. in English from University of Melbourne in 1990. She received her Bachelor's degree in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College in 1981 and her Ph.D. Career Ĭhristina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outside of Boston. 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.
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