''The People's Train'' is a 2009 novel by
Australian novelist
Tom Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel '' Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, ...
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Plot summary
The novel is a fictionalised account of the Australian life of
Fyodor Sergeyev
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (, ; March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stali ...
, given in the book as Artem Samsurov, a Russian émigré to Australia who would later play a significant role in Lenin's government.
Reviews
* ''The Guardian''
* ''The Telegraph''
''The Telegraph'', "The People's Train by Thomas Keneally: review" by Edward McGown, 5 October 2009
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Awards and nominations
* 2010 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...
South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
* 2010 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–19 ...
References
External links
* The author discussed the novel on Random Book Tal
''Random Book Talk''
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2009 Australian novels
Novels by Thomas Keneally