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Tara June Winch’s The Yield wins Prime Minister’s Literary Award in strong year for Indigenous authors
Wiradjuri writer Tara June Winch has capped an incredible year of acclaim for her novel The Yield, taking out the $80,000 fiction prize at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
It completes a hat trick that started with the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, where she took home three major prizes, including the Book of the Year, followed by the Miles Franklin Literary Award — Australia’s most prestigious writing prize, and one of its richest at $60,000.
Speaking to the ABC from France, where she has lived since 2011, the author said the prize money would allow her to “come home” to Australia.
Winch, who grew up in the seaside suburb of East Woonona on the New South Wales south coast, hasn’t seen her family since December 2019, and hopes to…
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