Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch won the fiction prize for her novel The Yield . Songspirals: Sharing women s wisdom of Country through songlines by the Gay wu Group of Women was the joint winner of the non-fiction prize alongside Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour, illustrated by Leanne Mulgo Watson won the Children s Literature prize.
The $80,000 fiction prize is the latest accolade for Ms Winch, who has also taken out the NSW Premier s Literary Awards Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
11th Dec 2020
Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has become the first Indigenous Australian writer to win both the Miles Franklin and the Prime Minister s Literary Award for fiction in the same year.
Her novel The Yield, has taken out the fiction prize at the Prime Minister s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier s Literary Awards Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and People s Choice award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Tara, who has lived in France since 2011 with her French husband and daughter spoke to CAAMA Radio just before the world started to close down with corona virus.