Stella Prize

Her first novel, Every Man's Rules for Scientific Living, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and won the Dobby Award for Best First Book and the WA Premier's Award for Fiction.

Her second novel, Mateship with Birds, was the winner of the inaugural Stella Prize and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.

Her third novel, Exploded View, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Queensland Fiction Book Award.

Today I'm talking to Carrie Tiffany about her new book, The Lady with the Dog, with artwork by Noel McKenna.

I want to get back to sense of place as well.

Her books have been shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award.

And I'll tell you, she's not a show-off.

That's not in my notes.

Fantastic.

And I'm going to go way back because I want to talk books because I'm a massive Stella Prize fan.

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, some of my favourite books.

And I'm back reading fiction again.

I went through a real phase of reading nonfiction.

A lot of the Stella Prize finalists have been nonfiction books.

which has been brilliant.

Thank you very much.

And Elizabeth McCarthy has been a literary judge and convener for prizes like the Stella Prize and what else, Elizabeth? The Victorian

Premier's Literary Awards three times.

Just a judge, not a winner.

She's the author of The House of Youssef, Australiana, The Lovers, Politika, and The Theory of Everything [chuckles] which you see here today.

She's been listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Stella Prize, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

Yumna is also the inaugural Parramatta Laureate of Literature.

And we have Nick Milligan is a local writer and entertainment journalist.

both of which were long listed for the Miles Franklin Award.

The Burrow was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.

Welcome, Mel.

Thank you so much for having me.

A lot of writers got behind the book and, you know, mentioned it in, you know, the best reads in The Age and other publications.

And I think that helped to keep it.

And then the Stella Prize shortlisting really helped keep it afloat as well.

So, yeah, I did feel very fortunate.

She has not stopped.

After years of reporting on the epidemic, she published her groundbreaking book, See What You Made Me Do, which won the 2020 Stella Prize and was subsequently made into an acclaimed television series.

Her work has helped to drive change and transform our understanding of coercive control and major flaws in our system.

as we mark Radio National's top Australian books campaign.

She's actually called Stella Marie Sarah Miles Franklin.

Which is what the Stella Prize is now.

Yes.

Yeah.