2021: Aboriginal author Alexis Wright wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the second time with 'Praiseworthy'.

Aboriginal author Alexis Wright wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the second time, with her 700-page novel 'Praiseworthy'. This makes her the first Aboriginal woman to achieve this prestigious honor twice, following her 2007 win for 'Carpentaria'. Set in a small Australian town, the novel explores issues of ecological catastrophe and ancestral signs through a sprawling tale and has won several accolades, including the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing, the Queensland Literary Award, and the James Tait Fiction Prize. With a focus on the 'Aboriginal chord', 'Praiseworthy' took Wright over a decade to write and is now being translated into Italian.

August 01, 2024
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