Some of us outside of Australia may not have heard about the Stella Prize, as it is relatively new and is concerned with celebrating Australian women’s writing. The organisation champions cultural change through the work of female Australian authors, and since its conception in 2013 has fast become a major literary prize.
Named after one of Australia’s iconic female authors, Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ Franklin, the prize’s focus is on recognising and celebrating both fiction and nonfiction.
In honour of International Women’s Day 2017, celebrated all over the world on March 8th, the Stella Prize has announced its shortlist for this year’s prize.
The website declares:
‘The 2017 Stella Prize shortlist celebrates books that combine extraordinary literary accomplishment with the social and familial reverberations of some of the most significant issues of our time: racism, violence against women, the aftermath of totalitarianism, the place of art in everyday life and the way we confront our individual mortality.’
(Brenda Walker, chair of the 2017 judging panel).
Here are the authors nominated:
4. An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
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