About the Author

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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