âWe were unanimousâ: three debut authors named best young Australian novelists
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Three first-time authors who published their novels in one of the most difficult years for all writers let alone those with debut books have been chosen as Best Young Australian Novelists in the
Herald and
The Coconut Children, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing and
A Treacherous Country respectively.
The awards, established by former
Herald literary editor Susan Wyndham, were first presented in 1997. They are open to writers aged 35 and younger at the time of their bookâs publication.