The Voss Literary Prize longlist was announced today, and I’ve read all but two of them!
Felicity Castagna, No More Boats see my review
Michelle De Kretser, The Life to Come see my review
Richard Flanagan, First Person see my review
Eva Hornung, The Last Garden see my review
Sofie Laguna, The Choke see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith Writes
Catherine McKinnon, Storyland see my review
Gerald Murnane, Border Districts see my review
Bram Presser, The Book of Dirt see my review
Jane Rawson, From the Wreck see my review
Pip Smith, Half Wild see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith Writes Update 2/12/18 See my review.
Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers:)
PS I’m don’t have the dates for the shortlist and winner announcements. We’ll just have to keep our eyes peeled!
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Yes, a few champagne corks popping tonight!
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By: Lisa Hill on September 14, 2018
at 8:21 pm
Many thanks for all literary prize updates ( long, short lists and winners)
It helps me so much to zoom in on some amazing Australian books,
I just finished The Enigmatic Mr. Deakin….hmmm.
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By: N@ncy on September 14, 2018
at 8:52 pm
You’re welcome, Nancy. I do try to keep up but these days most of the prize publicists don’t bother emailing press releases so it depends on what I see on Twitter. Which is a haphazard way of keeping up, I know.
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By: Lisa Hill on September 15, 2018
at 10:04 am
I loved Half Wild and The Choke.
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on September 15, 2018
at 7:51 am
That’s good, Theresa, because I have given up on Laguna after abandoning both of hers. No, I lie, I abandoned The Eye of the Sheep and didn’t even open The Choke after reading the blurb. #EpicFail I’d never heard of the other one…
Do you have reviews I can link to?
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By: Lisa Hill on September 15, 2018
at 10:07 am
I haven’t read Eye of the Sheep, but I do have to really talk myself into child narrated novels and I can’t read them often. The Choke was a powerful novel, but not easy to read, but there was enough about it to grab me. I did read her other one, One Foot Wrong. A very strange novel. In the extreme.
Here are the links.
The Choke: https://theresasmithwrites.com/2017/08/31/new-release-book-review-the-choke-by-sofie-laguna/
Half Wild:
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on September 15, 2018
at 10:38 am
Ah yes, I’d forgotten One Foot Wrong. I did read that one, because it was a book group choice but I didn’t like it, and I think I commented in my review that I didn’t understand why an author would want to immerse herself in such misery to write the book. If I remember correctly she admitted that she found it gruelling, but she has gone on doing it, for reasons that remain a mystery to me.
Anyway, thanks for the link, between the two of us we are covering the bases, eh?
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By: Lisa Hill on September 15, 2018
at 10:51 am
We are!
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on September 16, 2018
at 7:09 am
Pip Smith’s Half Wild is extraordinary.
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By: Jan Wallace Dickinson on September 17, 2018
at 9:54 am
That’s a good recommendation too, thanks:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 17, 2018
at 10:45 am