Steven Conte's debut novel, The Zookeeper's War, won the inaugural
Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. It was also
shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First
Book and for the 2007 Christina Stead Award for Fiction. The novel
was published in the UK and Ireland and translated into Spanish.
His second novel, The Tolstoy Estate was shortlisted for the 2021
Walter Scott Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award 2021, and
longlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize, the 2021 Colin
Roderick Award and the 2021 Indie Book Awards.
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The Zookeeper's War is a striking first novel, imbued with the melancholy of a collapsing world-Nazi Germany in the last years of the Second World War. Vera, married to the keeper of the Berlin Zoo, struggles each day to survive Allied air raids and betrayal by neighbours. As characters negotiate intricate and destructive moral choices, the narrative drive is sustained to the satisfyingly uncertain ending.' Judges of the inaugural Prime Minster's Literary Awards
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