Is Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy the great Australian novel? Beejay Silcox, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel that selected it as this year’s winner, thinks it might be.
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This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker prize.
Melbourne writer Alex Skovron has been recognised with a national award at 75. Alongside his own work, Skovron’s quiet impact on poets and poetry in Melbourne has been immense.
The 6 books on this year’s Stella Prize shortlist – including poetry, memoir, fiction and reportage – are idiosyncratic, activist and compelling.
The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The awards are contentious – but are fought over precisely because of their symbolic and enduring cultural function
As conversations about literary representation evolve, so does the Stella Prize. Five of the 12 authors on the tenth Stella Prize longlist are Indigenous, one is non-binary, and genre is in the mix.
Damon Galgut joins a distinguished line of South African authors, who are grappling with the complex dynamics of the country’s white community in their writing.
This separation or segregation of women’s writing should be understood as part of the patriarchal control of what and who matters – and, historically, women have not.
There is something beautiful about African languages carrying science, fictionalised of course, into imagined futures.
African literary prizes are slowly becoming more relevant and richer, thanks to writers organising on the continent.
Rules for the UK’s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize effectively mean it is dominated by big publishers.
For many years, the Miles Franklin award was a bastion of monoculture. But this year’s stories are a diverse reflection of Australia.
The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
The Booker Prize jury has done us a favour by drawing attention to this book.
The shortlist is out, but who wins? You decide.
There is a surprising degree of compassion in the narrative voices of this year’s five shortlisted novels. They are a heart-warming selection.
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
Were there really no poets or novelists or essayists - no people who have spent their lives in the field of literature - considered Nobel-worthy? This nostalgic decision is discourteous to writers.
They should be our pre-eminent national writing prizes. Instead, these awards bob on the vast sea of daily politics, occasionally getting dumped by a breaker.
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Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Children's and Adolescent Literature, Queensland University of Technology
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Flinders University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Westminster
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement, Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Research Student in 20th and 21st Century Literature, King's College London
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Lecturer in African and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in American Literature, University of York
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Lecturer In Linguistics, Bournemouth University
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Reader in Literature, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
