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 …
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 …
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 …