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Tara June Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin award for her book The Yield: ‘It broke my heart to write it’ – The Guardian
Wiradjuri author accepts Australia’s top literary prize from her home in France, describing the novel as ‘a handbook for truth’
Its bittersweet to win the Miles Franklin award, says Tara June Winch. I would have liked to see Tony win.
Winchs 2019 novel The Yield was announced the winner of the Miles Franklin on Thursday afternoon via a livestreamed YouTube ceremony, as befits the era of the coronavirus pandemic and to accommodate the fact that the Wiradjuri writer is currently living in France.
Winchs novel was shortlisted for Australias most well-known literary prize along with the work of five other writers, but its …
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