Kristina Olsson wins Kibble Literary Award for Boy, Lost

By Susan Wyndham
Updated July 31 2014 - 10:23am, first published July 23 2014 - 3:17pm
Kristina Olsson and Melissa Lucashenko in 2013. Photo: Natalie Bochenski
Kristina Olsson and Melissa Lucashenko in 2013. Photo: Natalie Bochenski
Kristina Olsson winner of the Kibble Award for Australian women's life writing  poses at State Library Of New South Wales. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Fairfax Media via Getty Images
Kristina Olsson winner of the Kibble Award for Australian women's life writing poses at State Library Of New South Wales. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Fairfax Media via Getty Images

Brisbane author Kristina Olsson is a deserving winner of the Kibble Literary Award for women’s life writing, awarded to her family memoir, Boy, Lost, a heartbreaking but finely controlled investigation into the abduction of Olsson’s half-brother by his father from their mother.