ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024

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).

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