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Tara June Winch
Born2 December 1983 (1983-12-02) (age 40)[1]
Wollongong, Australia
OccupationWriter
Notable awardsMiles Franklin Award (2020)
Children1
Website
www.tarajunewinch.com

Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Aboriginal Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book, The Yield.

Biography

Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, Australia, in 1983. Her father is from the Wiradjuri nation in western New South Wales, and she grew up in the coastal area of Woonona within the Wollongong region. She often explores the two geographical places in her fiction.[2] She is based in Australia and France.[3]

Her first novel, Swallow the Air (2006), won several Australian literary awards. The judges for The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "As with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion".[4]

The critical reception for her second book, After the Carnage (2016), was positive. A review in The Australian stated that "Winch can pack a punch and break your heart within a few pages" and that "The personal-is-political worldview flexes Winch's considerable literary muscle".[5]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Books

  • Winch, Tara June (2006). Swallow the Air. University of Queensland Press. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2016). After the Carnage. University of Queensland Press. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2019). The Yield. Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

Anthologies

  • Winch, Tara June (2005). Frank Moorhouse (ed.). "Cloud Busting". Best Australian Stories. Black Inc. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2006). "from Swallow the Air". MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Vol 18. University of Hawai'i. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2008). Anita Heiss; Peter Minter (eds.). "Cloud Busting". Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. Allen & Unwin. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2012). "It's too Difficult to Explain". McSweeney's 41. McSweeney's Publishing LLC. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2015). "Cloud Busting". Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women. Black Inc. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Essays and reporting

  • Winch, Tara June (2007). "Summers Gone". Sydney Morning Herald. 21-23 Dec (Good Weekend Magazine): 29–30, 33, 35. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2007). "Mending a Broken Link". The Next Big Thing. Griffith Review. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2013). "Skatestan". VICE Magazine. September. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2013). "Long Way Home". VOGUE Magazine Australia. April: 46–. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2014). "Bringing up bilingual bébé". Perspectives. Meanjin. 73 (1): 12–14. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2015). "Author". Motherhood and Creativity. Affirm Press: 25-. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
  • Winch, Tara June (2018). "First, Second, Third, Fourth". Growing up Aboriginal in Australia. Black Inc: 282–. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Film

  • Carriberrie (Screenwriter) Winch, Tara June (2018) [14]

References

  1. ^ Tara June Winch at University of Queensland Press
  2. ^ "Swallow the Air".
  3. ^ "Tara June Winch, Writer".
  4. ^ Wyndham, Susan (2007) "A fairytale beginning," The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts and Entertainment Section, 2–3 June 2007, p. 9
  5. ^ Varrenti, Elly (2016) "Tara June Winch's After the Carnage: lives reshaped by memories," The Australian, Review Section, 3 September 2016
  6. ^ State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, Runner up and Maureen Donahoe Encouragement award Archived 11 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Slq.qld.gov.au. Retrieved on 2011-11-06.
  7. ^ a b c Moran, Jennifer (2008) "Indigenous writer makes shortlist for coveted prize", The Canberra Times, 2008-04-11, p. 5
  8. ^ [1] Morris, Linda (2017)"NSW Premier's Award 2017 shortlist celebrates short storytelling", Sydney Morning Herald 2017-04-26.
  9. ^ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Miles Franklin won by Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch for novel of family, history and language". ABC News. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Carriberrie".
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