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Laura Jean McKay wins $100,000 Victorian literature prize for The Animals in That Country – The Guardian
Eerily set in a world gripped by pandemic, the debut was partially written by voice-to-text technology as the author recovered from her own strange disease
A first-time novelist has collected Australias 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,…
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