Congratulations to the six authors shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize. This $50,000 prize is awarded for the best work of literature, fiction or non-fiction, published in 2016 by an Australian woman.
The six shortlisted titles are:
- Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain (Read our review)
- The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Read our review)
- Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle
- An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire (Read our review)
- The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose (Read our review)
- Dying by Cory Taylor
Brenda Walker, chair of the 2017 judging panel, says: ‘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.’
We’re delighted to be offering the entire shortlist in a specially priced bundle. This bundle is only available to order online.
This year, the shortlisted prize money has been increased from $2000 to $3000 for each shortlistee, thanks to the support of the Ivy H Thomas and Arthur A Thomas Trust managed by Equity Trustees. In addition, all shortlistees will receive a three-week immersive writing retreat supported by the Trawalla Foundation.
The 2017 Stella Prize will be awarded in Melbourne on the evening of Tuesday 18 April. Find out more about this year’s Prize (including judges’ comments for each of the shortlisted books) here.
