Stella Prize 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo).
Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018 prize for Tracker (Giramondo).
A proud member of the Waanyi Nation, Wright has won numerous awards, including the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Carpentaria. At the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards, Praiseworthy won in the fiction category and was shortlisted for the Award for a Work of State Significance. The book has been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Last year Wright was awarded the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature’.
Author photo by Darren James.