WINNER OF THE RICHEST INDIVIDUAL LITERARY PRIZE IN AUSTRALASIA ANNOUNCED
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) announced the winners of the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024 at a celebratory event at NSW Parliament House on Wednesday, 23 October.
Offering the richest individual literary prize in Australasia, with a prize pool of $150,000, the awards recognise the outstanding literary talents of novelists who illuminate stories of the past, providing a window into our present and the future. The 2024 winners span across generations, including an epic novel of First Nations resistance and a dramatic war story with a difference.
Melissa Lucashenko, an acclaimed Aboriginal Writer of Goorie and European heritage, was awarded the Adult Prize for her novel Edenglassie (University of Queensland Press). Lucashenko will take home $100,000, which places the ARA prize money ahead of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Miles Franklin Award, Stella Prize and even The Booker Prize (£50,000).