Each year, The Stella Prize honours writing by women. Good. We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to go.
The 2021 shortlist encompasses contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction, and undertakes impressive trapeze acts across genre boundaries.
The books investigate the riddle of familial duty and the cost of patriarchy; Australia’s racist colonial history; species-ism and humanity as it exists within the natural world; the devastating impact of sexual violence for victims as well as criminal justice professionals; the trauma associated with physical violence inflicted upon women.
The authors write about sacrifice, grief, mental illness, power, privilege and connectivity.
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The Stella Prize 2021 shortlist spotlights the best books by Australian women and non-binary writers
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The Stella Prize prize emerged from discussions around gender disparity in the Australian literary landscape.
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The shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize brings together key strands of angst and anxiety from the past 12 months pandemics, sexual violence and misogyny, race, the environment.
Two of the books deal with the scourge of sexual violence against women in very different ways: Louise Milligan s Witness is a journalistic survey of sexual assault trials, while Evie Wyld s novel The Bass Rock imagines the lives of women in different eras who are each affected by sexual violence.
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