Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Indigenous Australian writer.
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| Born | 2 December 1983 (age 36)[1] Wollongong, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | tarajunewinch.com |
Biography
Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, Australia, in 1983. Her father is from the Wiradjuri nation in western NSW, and she grew up in the coastal area of Woonona within the Wollongong region: she often explores the two geographical places in her fiction.[2] She is based in Australia and France.[3]
Her first novel, Swallow the Air (2006), won several Australian literary awards. The judges for the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "As with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion".[4]
The critical reception for her second book, After the Carnage (2016), was positive. A review in The Australian stated that "Winch can pack a punch and break your heart within a few pages" and that "The personal-is-political worldview flexes Winch's considerable literary muscle".[5]
Awards and nominations
- 2003: State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, Runner up and Maureen Donahoe Encouragement award[6]
- 2004: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, David Unaipon Award for unpublished indigenous writers
- 2006: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for indigenous writing
- 2007: Dobbie Award
- 2007: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, UTS Award for New Writing
- 2007: The Sydney Morning Herald, Best Young Australian Novelists Award
- 2007: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlisted[7]
- 2007: The Age Book of the Year: Shortlisted[7]
- 2008: Literature Recipient of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Wole Soyinka was her mentor for this event.[7]
- 2008: nominated for the Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Outstanding Achievement in Literature.
- 2016: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — highly commended
- 2017: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction — Shortlisted[8]
- 2017: Queensland Literary Awards Short Story Collection — Shortlisted
- 2020: Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction — Shortlisted for The Yield[9]
- 2020: Stella Prize — Shortlisted for The Yield[10]
- 2020: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and People's Choice Award for The Yield[11]
- 2020: Miles Franklin Award — Shortlisted for The Yield[12]
Bibliography
Books
- Winch, Tara June (2006). Swallow the Air. University of Queensland Press.
- Winch, Tara June (2016). After the Carnage. University of Queensland Press.
- Winch, Tara June (2019). The Yield. Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books.
Anthologies
- Winch, Tara June (2005). Frank Moorhouse (ed.). "Cloud Busting". Best Australian Stories. Black Inc.
- Winch, Tara June (2006). "from Swallow the Air". MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Vol 18. University of Hawai'i.
- Winch, Tara June (2008). Anita Heiss and Peter Minter (eds.). "Cloud Busting". Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. Allen & Unwin.CS1 maint: uses editors parameter (link)
- Winch, Tara June (2012). "It's too Difficult to Explain". McSweeney's 41. McSweeney's Publishing LLC.
- Winch, Tara June (2015). "Cloud Busting". Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women. Black Inc.
Essays and reporting
- Winch, Tara June (2007). "Summers Gone". Sydney Morning Herald. 21-23 Dec (Good Weekend Magazine): 29–30, 33, 35.
- Winch, Tara June (2007). "Mending a Broken Link". The Next Big Thing. Griffith Review.
- Winch, Tara June (2013). "Skatestan". VICE Magazine. September.
- Winch, Tara June (2013). "Long Way Home". VOGUE Magazine Australia. April: 46–.
- Winch, Tara June (2014). "Bringing up bilingual bébé". Perspectives. Meanjin. 73 (1): 12–14.
- Winch, Tara June (2015). "Author". Motherhood and Creativity. Affirm Press: 25-.
- Winch, Tara June (2018). "First, Second, Third, Fourth". Growing up Aboriginal in Australia. Black Inc: 282–.
Film
- Carriberrie (Screenwriter) Winch, Tara June (2018) [13]
References
- Tara June Winch at University of Queensland Press
- "Swallow the Air".
- "Tara June Winch, Writer".
- Wyndham, Susan (2007) "A fairytale beginning," The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts and Entertainment Section, 2–3 June 2007, p. 9
- Varrenti, Elly (2016) "Tara June Winch's After the Carnage: lives reshaped by memories," The Australian, Review Section, 3 September 2016
- State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, Runner up and Maureen Donahoe Encouragement award Archived 11 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Slq.qld.gov.au. Retrieved on 2011-11-06.
- Moran, Jennifer (2008) "Indigenous writer makes shortlist for coveted prize", The Canberra Times, 2008-04-11, p. 5
- Morris, Linda (2017)"NSW Premier's Award 2017 shortlist celebrates short storytelling", Sydney Morning Herald 2017-04-26.
- "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- "Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- "Carriberrie".
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