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This is Winch’s 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, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. Poppy’s dictionary runs through this novel, with English words given their Wiradjuri translations; after each translation comes a brief g...

Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won the Miles Franklin award. If anything, the heart of the story — one of reclaiming language, culture, identity, and a possible future — seems only more potent now. There is nothing new about the knowledge that whose stories are told, and how they are told, matters enormo...