Judges have described the Waanyi writer’s fourth novel Praiseworthy as ‘a canon-crushing Australian novel for the ages’
Alexis Wright is the only author to ever win both the Stella prize and the Miles Franklin award. She joins a six-book shortlist for the 2024 Stella prize, alongside Sanya Rushdi and Katherine Brabon.Alexis Wright is the only author to ever win both the Stella prize and the Miles Franklin award. She joins a six-book shortlist for the 2024 Stella prize, alongside Sanya Rushdi and Katherine Brabon.
“Wright’s use of language and imagery is poetic and expansive, creating an immersive blak multiverse. Readers will be buoyed up by Praiseworthy’s aesthetic and technical quality; and winded by the tempestuous pace of Wright’s political satire,” they added. Praiseworthy won the fiction category at the Queensland Premier’s award last year. It is also up for the UK’s oldest literary awards, the, both named for the My Brilliant Career author Stella Miles Franklin. She won the Miles Franklin in 2007 for her second novel Carpentaria, which was rejected by every major publisher in Australia before independent publisher Giramondo picked it up.
Joining Wright on the six-book Stella shortlist, whittled down from 227 entries, are three debuts: Sanya Rushdi for Hospital, a “deeply experimental” autofiction inspired by Rushdi’s experience with psychosis; Katia Ariel for The Swift Dark Tide, a memoir charting her romantic relationship with a woman while married to a man; and Hayley Singer for Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead, about the modern meat industry.
Previous winners of the Stella include Sarah Holland-Batt and Charlotte Wood. The 2024 winner will be announced on 2 May.Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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