We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too!
- Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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.
This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
Sarah Holland-Batt becomes the second poet in a row to win The Stella Prize. The Jaguar is an extension of her activism against human rights abuses in aged care in Australia.
The 6 books on this year’s Stella Prize shortlist – including poetry, memoir, fiction and reportage – are idiosyncratic, activist and compelling.
In his latest novel, Gregory Day forces the reader to slow down and attend to the ecology of place.
Miles Franklin Award winning novelist Amanda Lohrey explores the political and the personal in a way that makes her unique among contemporary Australian writers.
Frank Moorhouse devoted himself to advancing the interests of authors, but his greatest legacy is his own writing.
For nine years, The Stella Count has tracked the gender of authors reviewed in key Australian publications. The bias once firmly favoured men. But things have changed.
Government vetos of academic research reveal a worrying ignorance of the value of literature to Australia’s society, culture and economy.
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