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After winning $215,000, Ali Cobby Eckermann took time off from writing. Now her new book She Is the Earth has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
The titles included in the longlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award offer a breadth of narrative forms and styles.
Wright's novel, Praiseworthy, was heralded by the New York Times as Australia's "most ambitious and accomplished" novel of the century.
The 73-year-old has won the $60,000 prize for Australian female and non-binary writers for her ‘genre-bending’ 736-page novel
Wright has become the first author to win the $60,000 Stella Prize twice, taking out the 2024 award with her novel Praiseworthy.