![]() ![]() On her personal website her own family tree has been ringbarked and pruned to hide her unblack forebears-even including her mother and all her family line. Winch deftly and affectionately explores relationships in the fictional Gondiwindi family. She deals fluently with the reborn Wiradjuri language: she did a one-day course some years ago. Tara June Winch is a central New South Wales Wiradjuri author who was born in Wollongong and has never lived in Wiradjuri “country”. ![]() Though The Yield is published in Australia, Britain, the USA and France it has not yet been translated into any Aboriginal language, although it is built around such a “resurrected” language. ![]() The judges of the Stella Prize (for women’s writing and “cultural change”) also thought it was rather good and the Sydney Morning Herald came through with a front cover quote, “Astonishingly elegant and powerful”. Last year The Yield by Tara June Winch, her second acclaimed novel, won the Miles Franklin Award, Book of the Year in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, total prize money $190,000. ![]() Australia’s leading indigenous novelist lives in France. ![]()
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