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Alexis Wright FAHA (born 25 November 1950) is an Aboriginal Australian writer. She is best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.She was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth and in 2024 for Praiseworthy.
It was published in March 2020, [1] and was sixth on the list of Australian fiction bestsellers in the year of publication. [5] It was well-reviewed, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] sold well, [ 8 ] and won several awards, including General Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards [ 9 ] and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction [ 10 ] A ...
Lourdes Teodoro (born 1946), Afro-Brazilian poet and literary critic; Marcia Theophilo (born 1941), poet, short story writer, essayist, writes in Portuguese, Italian and English; Wal Torres (born 1950), sexologist, non-fiction writer
Jocelynne Scutt (born 1947), non-fiction writer and lawyer plus crime fiction and short stories under noms-de-plume; Catherine Shepherd (1901–1976), playwright; Helen Simpson (1897–1940), novelist, playwright and historian; Nardi Simpson (born 1975), novelist and musician; Sanu Sharma (living), Nepalese-Australian novelist, story writer ...
The House at Riverton (2006; also known as The Shifting Fog) Sunday Times #1 bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Winner - Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year 2007, General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, and nominated for Most Popular Book at the British Book Awards in 2008.
Novels set in Brazil by city (4 C) B. Novels set in Bahia (1 C, 12 P) M. Novels set in Minas Gerais (2 P) Pages in category "Novels set in Brazil" The following 38 ...
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English. Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago; Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) Viatcheslav Repin (born 1960), author of novels, short stories and essays in Russian and French; Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889)