Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners

de Kretser, who's novel Theory & Practice (which I'm currently reading), and Morton's book, Mean Streak, about the previous Australian government's controversial Robobot debt recovery scheme, are respective winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories. Others recipients, who were announced last Monday, 29 September 2025, include The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems, by David Brooks in poetry, and The Invocations, by Krystal Sutherland in young adult. See the full list of […]

https://disassociated.com/michelle-de-kretser-rick-morton-2025-prime-ministers-literary-award/

Australian authors group including #JMCoetzee, #CharlotteWood, #KimScott, #TimWinton, #MichelledeKretser and #AnnaFunder give federal politicians 5 books to encourage nuance in #MiddleEast debate.
The book selection was endorsed by the Jewish Council of Australia and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.
The group recommended the five “authoritative, highly readable books” to help address what they believed was a lack of nuance in public debate.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/19/tim-winton-charlotte-wood-australian-authors-book-package-politicians-middle-east-conflict
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