Award Winners 2024

Award Winners 2024

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the £10,000 (A$18,958) prize.

Fiction judge Benjamin Bateman, of the University of Edinburgh, called Praiseworthy ‘a kaleidoscopic and brilliantly conceived novel that interweaves matters of climate and Indigenous justice in prose that accomplishes the most difficult of feats—being funny and simultaneously ferociously engaged with some of the most pressing ethical and political questions of our contemporary moment’.

Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History.

Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank Bongiorno said the book ‘explores the histories and mythologies of Angas Downs pastoral station in the Northern Territory from the perspectives of the Anangu who lived there’.

‘[Palmer] shows how a regional and truly place-based approach, and how understanding Aṉangu ways of seeing the world, together retell the history of colonisation, illuminating wider, mythologised landscapes and industries, and Aboriginal people’s extraordinary responses to the disruption and dislocation of invasion and pastoralism,’ Karskens and Bongiorno said.

Click here to read QRC’s review of Unmaking Angas Downs.

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