Literature prizes
No fluke: Rebecca Giggs has a whale of a time on the Stella shortlist
The WA writer’s book about whales has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize as the NSW Premier’s awards announce its shortlists and Australian writers dominate a British prize for historical fiction.
- by Jason Steger
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Lost words bring winning ones for Pip Williams and her debut novel
The Dictionary of Lost Words has been named book of the year in the independent booksellers’ awards.
- by Jason Steger
S.L. Lim the first non-binary writer up for Stella Prize since entry changes
Twelve writers have been longlisted for the annual $50,000 prize.
- by Melanie Kembrey
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Books
Author who gave voice to animals in a pandemic wins $100,000 prize
Laura Jean McKay has scooped Australia’s biggest literature prize for The Animals in That Country.
- by Jason Steger
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Books
Ali Smith and the end of her four seasons
The Scottish novelist's Summer completes a four-book series that is rich and witty.
- by Gregory Day
Tara June Winch adds Prime Minister's Literary Award to prize sweep
Her second novel The Yield also won the Miles Franklin Award in July.
- by Broede Carmody
Patrick White makes a writer's Day, again
Gregory Day has won the Patrick White Award for a writer "who has made an ongoing contribution to Australian literature, but may not have received adequate recognition".
- by Jason Steger
This has changed my whole life, says Booker winner Douglas Stuart
The New York-based writer mined his own difficult childhood in Glasgow to create a remarkable central character in his prize-winning novel.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Shuggie Bain writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize
The Scottish author has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his debut novel Shuggie Bain, which depicts a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow.
- by Jill Lawless
Lucy Treloar wins $50,000 Barbara Jefferis award with Wolfe Island
The prize is given every other year to ‘‘the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.
- by Jason Steger
Michael Robotham joins the crime-writing elite with double Dagger win
The writer has become the first Australian to win the Gold Dagger for best crime novel twice.
- by Jason Steger and Robert Moran