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Laura Jean McKay wins $100,000 Victorian literature prize for The Animals in That Country


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A first-time novelist has collected Australia’s richest literary prize with her apocalyptic and eerily-timed tale about a world in the throes of a pandemic.
Dr Laura Jean McKay took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature on Monday for The Animals in That Country, a debut novel described by Guardian reviewer Justine Jordan as a fierce and funny exploration of other consciousnesses, and the limits of language.
The prescient nature of the work is purely coincidental, McKay told the Guardian, speaking from her home in New Zealand’s Palmerston North, where she has been lecturing in creative writing at Massey University for the past 18 months. She began writing the novel six years before the world had heard of Covid-19. ....

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Laura Jean McKay's pandemic fiction The Animals in That Country wins Victorian Premier's Literary Awards' $100,000 top gong


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Laura Jean McKay s pandemic fiction The Animals in That Country wins Victorian Premier s Literary Awards $100,000 top gong
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The Animals in That Country took five years of research and writing by Victorian-born writer Laura Jean McKay.
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Victorian author Laura Jean McKay has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier s Literary Awards with her debut novel, which imagines a viral pandemic in Australia that gives humans the ability to understand animals. ....

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