Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Individuals and groups ($42,314)
Awards for Works
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The Inland Sea
London
:
Pushkin Press
,
2020
18268137
2020
single work
novel
'In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2021 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
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