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Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award

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The Booker Prize — described by some as the Olympic Games of literature — is one of the world's most prestigious writing prizes. Booker Prize 2024 shortlist James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood For the first …

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Australian author Charlotte Wood shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Australian author Charlotte Wood shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional

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Charlotte Wood has become the first Australian to be shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize since 2014, for her novel Stone Yard Devotional. The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Wood's previous …

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Australian author Charlotte Wood longlisted for Booker Prize for Stone Yard Devotional
5 months, 1 week ago

Australian author Charlotte Wood longlisted for Booker Prize for Stone Yard Devotional

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Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international literature, for her latest novel, Stone Yard Devotional. Sarah L'Estrange, from ABC RN's The Book Show, called Stone Yard Devotional "a quiet, contemplative novel". Critic Kate Evans, host of ABC RN's The Bookshelf, describes Stone Yard Devotional as an "excellent …

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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 shortlist: Book experts on the surprises and likely winner of Australia's biggest literary award
6 months, 1 week ago

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 shortlist: Book experts on the surprises and likely winner of Australia's biggest literary award

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The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has now been announced, with six authors selected from the longlist to vie for Australia's most prestigious literary award. To take a closer look at the list, we've convened a literary cabal of The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and book critic Declan Fry. Often …

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Charlotte Wood's latest novel Stone Yard Devotional tackles unresolved grief and a mouse plague
1 year ago

Charlotte Wood's latest novel Stone Yard Devotional tackles unresolved grief and a mouse plague

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In 2022, Charlotte Wood had just finished the first draft of her new novel, Stone Yard Devotional, when she received the terrible news that her older sister had breast cancer. The "psychic calamity" of Wood's cancer experience found its way into Stone Yard Devotional. Unsubscribe from life Stone Yard Devotional is a novel about "grieving, love forgiveness" set in a …

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Melissa Lucashenko, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood and other best new books released in October, selected by avid readers and critics
1 year, 2 months ago

Melissa Lucashenko, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood and other best new books released in October, selected by avid readers and critics

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Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange, and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan. "It's a very bare, beautiful landscape," she told ABC RN's The Book Show. The central tension in Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood's seventh novel, is between the longing …

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Stella Prize 10 years on: Australian authors reflect on how the award changed their careers and the literary landscape
2 years, 9 months ago

Stella Prize 10 years on: Australian authors reflect on how the award changed their careers and the literary landscape

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When Heather Rose found out she had won the $50,000 Stella Prize for Australian women and non-binary writers in 2017, she celebrated by taking a bottle of champagne to the beach with her friends in Hobart. Stella Prize winners 2021: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld 2020: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill 2019: The Erratics by …

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Charlotte Wood, Gordi describe 'a trying year' in the arts that has pushed many to the brink
4 years, 1 month ago

Charlotte Wood, Gordi describe 'a trying year' in the arts that has pushed many to the brink

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The coronavirus pandemic is destroying the livelihoods of artists, whose work is already threatened by a lack of government support or a national cultural policy, leading figures from Australia's arts and culture sectors say. Key points: Writers without support have been 'desperately seeking' any paid work One artist's funding request was rejected because she was 'too successful' Music industry says …

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The Stella Prize 2020 shortlist is your shortcut to some of the year's best books by Australian women
4 years, 9 months ago

The Stella Prize 2020 shortlist is your shortcut to some of the year's best books by Australian women

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Writing by Australian women has found a champion in The Stella Prize, which has been spotlighting not just our local heroes but our emerging stars since 2013. The $50,000 prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction or nonfiction, has so far been awarded to Alexis Wright for her collective memoir of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth, Charlotte Wood's dystopian novel …

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