This is Lee Lai’s second book to be shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and her first win.
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The six books on this year’s Stella shortlist range widely, including graphic novels, poetry, novels and memoir. But they have one thing in common: excellence.
Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.
This year’s Stella Prize shortlist is a testament to the importance of truthfulness, painstaking research and the urgency of confronting shame.
Evidence suggests male writers and readers are in decline – in Australia and elsewhere. Is a male-only publishing house the solution?
In 1903, Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.
Caro Llewellyn’s first novel draws on her experience in the literary industry. She was CEO of the Wheeler Centre and ran literary festivals in Sydney and New York.
Award-winning Australian novelist Brenda Walker died last week. Her close friend, Delia Falconer, pays loving tribute to her life and work.
Praiseworthy is the defining work written on this continent so far this century. It defies classification.
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.
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 her new memoir, Stella Prize winner Heather Rose reflects on overcoming childhood trauma and adult pain with spiritual work. But our reviewer wishes it allowed moments of ‘pause or ambiguity’.
Two radically inventive new works of Australian graphic nonfiction dig deep into 21st-century life. They balance critique with hopeful possibilities – of collective change and radical acceptance.
Evelyn Araluen’s award-winning book Dropbear is a sizzling collection of poetry and prose that is both deeply funny and deadly serious.
For the first time, only one novel has been shortlisted, amid works of poetry, essays and graphic fiction. They tackle big issues - racism, grief, sexual abuse - but are leavened by joy.
Our experts cast their eyes over this list of contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction which undertakes impressive trapeze acts across genre boundaries.
Stella Prize winner Heather Rose’s new novel Bruny catalogues modern geopolitical concerns in a work that crosses satirical, political and family drama genres.
Debut memoir The Erratics possesses a rare honesty, exploding socially sanctioned ideas about mothers and families.
The six books shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize cover diverse subject matter and make risky aesthetic choices; they are serious and thoroughly unsentimental.
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor, English, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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PhD Candidate and literary critic, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia
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Adjunct academic in Creative Writing and English, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne