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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: A reading guide to the six shortlisted books
9 months ago

The Stella Prize 2024: A reading guide to the six shortlisted books

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For more than 10 years, the Stella Prize has showcased the best writing by women and non-binary writers in Australia. — Sarah L'Estrange The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel Gazebo Books "Katia Ariel's memoir is an open love letter to her own courage and desire," said the judges. It is kind of a memoir, but it is really more …

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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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Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar
1 year, 8 months ago

Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar

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Sarah Holland-Batt has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her intimate and affecting poetry collection The Jaguar, about her relationship with her late father, who suffered from Parkinson's disease. The judges' report described the collection, Holland-Batt's third, as "accessible, lyrical and wise", and the poems about the poet and her father as "tender memorable". " Chair of the judging panel, …

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The 2023 Stella Prize shortlist is one of its most diverse. Why has it changed so much over the decade?
1 year, 8 months ago

The 2023 Stella Prize shortlist is one of its most diverse. Why has it changed so much over the decade?

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Earlier this month, The Australian's literary editor Caroline Overington declared the issue of women writers "not being taken seriously in this country" as "solved". Previous Stella winners 2022: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen 2021: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld 2020: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill 2019: The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie 2018: Tracker by Alexis Wright …

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Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear
2 years, 8 months ago

Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear

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Evelyn Araluen has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her playful and searing debut collection of poetry and prose, Dropbear, which was described by the prize judges as "breathtaking". "We're in one of the most exciting times for Black writing I think that we've ever seen," Araluen told ABC TV's Art Works in 2021. Araluen's Stella Prize win is another …

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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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Stella Prize goes to British Australian author Evie Wyld for The Bass Rock — a gothic tale of women and violence
3 years, 8 months ago

Stella Prize goes to British Australian author Evie Wyld for The Bass Rock — a gothic tale of women and violence

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British Australian author Evie Wyld has won the $50,000 Stella Prize for Australian women and non-binary writers for The Bass Rock, a gothic tale spanning 300 years and multiple generations of women. Previous Stella winners 2020: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill 2019: The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie 2018: Tracker by Alexis Wright 2017: The Museum of …

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Domestic abuse investigation by journalist Jess Hill wins Stella Prize for writing by Australian women
4 years, 8 months ago

Domestic abuse investigation by journalist Jess Hill wins Stella Prize for writing by Australian women

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Journalist Jess Hill has won the $50,000 Stella Prize for writing by Australian women for See What You Made Me Do, her study of domestic abuse in Australia. Louise Swinn, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel, said Hill's book "meticulously dismantle all of the lazy old lies we associate with domestic abuse" by means of "forensic investigation and highlighting …

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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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Comic artist Mandy Ord's graphic memoir longlisted for Stella Prize in first for major Australian literary award
4 years, 10 months ago

Comic artist Mandy Ord's graphic memoir longlisted for Stella Prize in first for major Australian literary award

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When Mandy Ord's publisher submitted her graphic memoir to the Stella Prize — to compete with a pool of 150 fiction and non-fiction works from across the nation — the Melbourne-based cartoonist thought it was "completely wild". The 2020 Stella Prize Longlist Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui Songspirals by Gay'wu Group of Women The House Of Youssef by Yumna Kassab …

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