Wright has become the first author to win the $60,000 Stella Prize twice, taking out the 2024 award with her novel Praiseworthy.
It wouldn't do Australians any harm to give their brains a workout by reading big books, author Alexis Wright says. "People are happy to go to the gym and have a good physical workout, it won't do any harm to have a good workout of your mind as well," she told AAP.
The characters' responses to the situation are rich in allegory and vary from comical to tragic: one hatches a plan to replace Qantas with a national carrier of pack animals — Australia's five million feral donkeys. Another dreams of being white and powerful, and a third, tellingly named Aboriginal Sovereignty, becomes suicidal.
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