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Aug 2, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Alexis Wright
A weekly show about the books we love and the stories behind them. Hear the best writers from Australia and around the world talk about their lives and their work. How to listen? Alexis Wright joins Michael for a conversation about her Miles Franklin Award-winning book Praiseworthy, which has been described as “an astonishing feat of storytelling and sovereign imagination.” Alexis Wright’s 2023 novel Praiseworthy has just been awarded the Miles Franklin Award.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Alexis Wright
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The haunting theme of next month’s Melbourne Writers Festival will find local and international guests gathering round to talk about ghosts of all kinds – from the characters that linger long after the last page to the withering modern phenomenon of ghosting.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
forum.figma.com | Alexis Wright
April 4, 2024, 3:03pm 1 When I used cmd + right click, the select layers menu would appear on it’s own. Now it appears in the in the full menu. Is there a way to switch back?
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
readings.com.au | Alexis Wright
The shortlist for this year’s Stella Prize has been announced! The Stella Prize seeks to elevate the work of Australian women and non-binary writers. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. This year’s prize saw over 224 entries. Explore the 2024 Stella Prize shortlist below. The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman?
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
746books.com | Sean Cotter |Alexis Wright
Novels by two Irish authors have been shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry and Haven by Emma Donoghue were among the final six announced.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alexis Wright
What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview 22 Funny Novels March Releases What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview 22 Funny Novels March Releases "Praiseworthy," Alexis Wright's bracing satire of clashing worldviews in Australia, more than lives up to its name. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
dublinliteraryaward.ie | Alexis Wright
ABOUT THE BOOK In a small town in northern Australia dominated by a haze cloud, a crazed visionary sees donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in the dance of moths and butterflies. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
dublinliteraryaward.ie | Emma Donoghue |Jonathan Escoffery |Sebastian Barry |Alexis Wright
Discover the 2024 Longlist, featuring 6 books nominated by 6 libraries from 6 countries around the world. Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. He won a PEN Translates grant for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and a PEN/Heim grant for Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny (shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize).
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Alexis Wright
(Author) FORMAT In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his people’s independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
eventbrite.com.au | Alexis Wright
A Western Sydney Book Club will explore books by contemporary authors, with an initial focus on Australian writing. Monthly conversations about books led by guest authors, for readers in and connected to Western Sydney. Praiseworthy by Alexis WrightRoanna Gonsalveswill facilitate the conversation about Alexis Wright latest novel.
