Shortlisted for the VPLA.
Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize
for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Award.
Shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
Longlisted Miles Franklin Award.
Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually.
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983
and based in France.
Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was
named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and
has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. A 10th
Anniversary edition was published in 2016.
In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as
part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts
Initiative.
Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage was
published in 2016. After the Carnage was longlisted for the
Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction, shortlisted for the
2017 NSW Premier's Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the
Queensland Literary Award for a collection.
She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary, Carriberrie, which
screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and toured
internationally.
The Yield won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the People's
Choice Award and Book of the Year at the 2020 NSW Premier's
Literary Awards.
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