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Author who gave voice to animals in a pandemic wins $100,000 prize – Sydney Morning Herald
Laura Jean McKay has scooped Australia’s biggest literature prize for The Animals in That Country.
When told about the big award on Monday afternoon so she could film a statement for the virtual ceremony, McKay asked organisers whether they were sure. Im wandering in a daze down the street to buy champagne, she told The Age shortly after.
To win in this year, which has been such a phenomenal year for fiction a year when fiction has meant a lot to so many people during a pandemic … I never would have thought it possible.
On Sunday she and her partner, writer Tom Doig, had started to look to…
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