History
Inaugurated in 2020, The Novel Prize is managed by Fitzcarraldo Editions (London), Giramondo (Australia), and New Directions (New York), and is open worldwide for a book-length work of fiction written in English.
Only Australian authors (or authors based in Australia at the time of shortlisting / winning) are individually listed on AustLit.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020
inaugural winner y
Cold Enough for Snow
Artarmon
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Giramondo Publishing
,
2022
23614222
2022
single work
novel
'A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world - how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.
'A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafes and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother's family in Hong Kong, and the daughter's own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?
'Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
