Tara June Winch, an Australian (Wiradjuri) writer based in France, has been awarded the coveted Premier’s Award at this year’s Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
As the state’s highest literary honour, Ms Winch wins $25,000 for her novel The Yield, described by the judges as an exceptional and defining work of Australian literature. It is a complex story of 200 years of memory and experience, captured in language that flexes and pulls.
Also winning the $15,000 Fiction Award, Ms Winch beat 36 other highly talented shortlisted
winners from around Australia.
The awards, which celebrate Australia’s writing culture, were announced in a ceremony on the opening day of Adelaide Writers’ Week in the Pioneers Women’s Memorial Gardens, as part of the 2022 Adelaide Festival.