Thomas Keneally books, including 30 novels. He is particularly famed for his "Schindler's Ark" (1982) (later republished as "Schindler's List"), the first novel by an Australian to win the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film "Schindler's List". He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith", 1975 for "Gossip from the Forest", and 1979 for "Confederates". Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in Fred
Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (April 27, 1842 – August 9, 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in Fischamend, a village south of Vienna, since the 17th Century. His father, Julius Jakob Schindler (1814–1846), died of lung cancer when Emil was only four years old. His mother, Maria Anna (1816-1885) soon afterwards took him to Pressburg (Bratislava). Three years later, she married Second Lieutenant (soon Captain), Mathias Eduard Nepalleck (1815–1873), who served in the local