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This is Winchâs second novel: she is herself of Wiradjuri heritage, and an afterword makes clear how significant it is for her to give that heritage a place in wider culture. It is an effort that is being recognised; when
The Yield was published in Australia in 2019, it won the Miles Franklin award, Australiaâs most prestigious literary prize. Poppyâs dictionary runs through this novel, with English words given their Wiradjuri translations; after each translation comes a brief glimpse of how the word links to family, to land, to story. There is suicide â
balubuningidyilinya; house or dwelling place â
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.