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Provocative, political, speculative: your guide to the 2018 Stella shortlist

  • Written by Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
None of the books on the Stella shortlist offer a comforting vision of contemporary Australian life.Shutterstock

Six years ago, The Stella Prize burst onto the Australian literary scene with an air of urgency. The A$50,000 award was the progeny of the Stella Count – a campaign highlighting the under-representation of women authors in book...

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