Publisher's synopsis
Reading Australia presents this Charlotte Wood podcast, with permission from The Garret Podcast.
Charlotte Wood is a renowned Australian fiction author. She has published five novels and two works of non-fiction.
Her awards and honours include:
- The Natural Way of Things (2016), was awarded the 2016 Stella Prize and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year, and was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction
- Animal People (2012), was awarded the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award
- The Submerged Cathedral (2005), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Pieces of a Girl (1999), was awarded the Dobbie Award and the Jim Hamilton Prize.
Charlotte received the Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre in 2016. She was a guest curator of the Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2018.
Charlotte Wood is the author of six novels and two books of non-fiction. Her latest novel is the international bestseller The Weekend, which was the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2020 and shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
Her previous novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year, and was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her non-fiction work includes The Luminous Solution (forthcoming 2021), an exploration of creativity, resilience and the inner life; The Writer’s Room, a collection of interviews with authors; and Love & Hunger, a memoir about cooking. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among other publications.
Photo by Wendy McDougall, courtesy of Allen & Unwin
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