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The 2018 Voss Prize winner has been announced, and the winner is

*drumroll*

Bram Presser for The Book of Dirt!

I had lost track of how many prizes this remarkable book has won, so I looked it up at the Text Publishing website:

• Winner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2018
• Winner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, 2018
• Winner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: The People’s Choice Award, 2018
• Longlisted, Nib Waverley Library Award, 2018

Unfortunately I can’t tell you what the prize is worth because I can’t find that information on the Voss Prize website.  But from the photo I saw at Twitter, Bram looks very pleased:)

It was an impressive shortlist—I can recommend every one of the books that I’ve reviewed as very good reading:

• Felicity Castagna, No More Boats, see my review
• Eva Hornung, The Last Garden, see my review
• Sofie Laguna, The Choke, see Sue’s review at Whispering Gums
• Catherine McKinnon, Storyland, see my review
• Bram Presser, The Book of Dirt,  see my review
• Pip Smith, Half Wild, see my review.

Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers!