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Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko wins $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for her novel Edenglassie
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko wins $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for her novel Edenglassie

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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 …

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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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The Stella Prize 2024 longlist features Katherine Brabon, Kate Mildenhall and Melissa Lucashenko
10 months ago

The Stella Prize 2024 longlist features Katherine Brabon, Kate Mildenhall and Melissa Lucashenko

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The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize has been announced at a ceremony at Adelaide Festival as part of Writers' Week. Twelve books have been longlisted for the 2024 prize, including Alexis Wright's "abundant odyssey" Praiseworthy, Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, and the acclaimed book about chronic illness and friendship, Body Friend by Katherine Brabon. First Nations reading guide Photo shows …

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Melbourne poet Grace Yee wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary award
11 months, 1 week ago

Melbourne poet Grace Yee wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary award

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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 …

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From Alexis Wright to Tony Birch and Evelyn Araluen: Powerful books by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers
11 months, 2 weeks ago

From Alexis Wright to Tony Birch and Evelyn Araluen: Powerful books by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers

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In recent years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have claimed some of Australia's most prestigious literary prizes, including the Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Some of these winners — including Alexis Wright, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch — appear alongside poets, activists and debut authors in our wrap of First Nations writing …

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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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Dreaming Inside poetry provides window on the thoughts of Indigenous men in jail
2 years, 7 months ago

Dreaming Inside poetry provides window on the thoughts of Indigenous men in jail

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Over the past decade, Aunty Barbara Nicholson has made the journey to Junee Correctional Centre more than 300 times. A decade after Aunty Barbara first started working with the inmates, the 10th edition of their journal of poetry, Dreaming Inside, has been published. "If anyone tried anything funny with me, there'd be 300 Aboriginal inmates in the jail who would …

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