Books & Poetry
The shortlist for this year’s Stella Prize includes books about courage, strength, compassion and love – all of which we need now, more than ever.
Books & Poetry
Young people – how they think and feel, and how families, schools, clinics and courts fail them – are a recurring theme in the six surprising and daring books shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, writes
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Alexis Wright has won the 2018 Stella Prize with ‘Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth’ – a work she describes as her attempt to tell an ‘impossible story’ using the voices of many people to reflect on the life of a visionary figure in Aboriginal politics.
Tasmanian writer Heather Rose has won the 2017 Stella Prize for ‘The Museum of Modern Love’ – one of six remarkable shortlisted books that Camilla Nelson says engage the heart and brain.
Stella Prize-winning author Charlotte Wood admits that at times she thought about giving up writing her “dark, bleak” novel The Natural Way of Things.
The 2016 Stella Prize for Australian women’s literature has been won by Charlotte Wood’s dystopian novel where girls who have been involved in sexual scandals find themselves doing hard labour in an isolated outback camp.
