Melissa Lucashenko didn't want to write a book about First Contact. Lucashenko tells ABC Arts the book is a "First Nations love story about how to try to live a good Aboriginal life as society is being transformed around you". It was praised by prize chair journalist Tony Maniaty as an "ambitious, epic" novel and "a fiercely original exploration of …
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 …
Melbourne poet Grace Yee has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for her debut verse novel, Chinese Fish. A strong night for First Nations literature Three of the nine winners at the VPLAs were Indigenous writers — including Bundjalung and Kullilli writer and host of ABC RN's The Art Show, Daniel Browning, who …