The author describes her award-winning novel as a ''once-in-a-lifetime love letter to Australia''.
About a year ago Tara June Winch was in tears. She bumped into her friend Melissa Lucashenko at the State Library in Sydney and told her she was there to see her win the Miles Franklin Award. She was making a joke... but cried minutes later when Lucashenko did win.Winch cried again a few days ago when she learned she had won this year's $60,000 Miles for her second novel,.
But 36-year-old Winch – the third Indigenous writer after Lucashenko and two-time winner Kim Scott to win Australia's most significant literary prize – said she didn't really cry because she had won. She cried because she had wanted another shortlisted Indigenous writer, Tony Birch, to win for his novel"Tony's my mentor, Tony's my elder, Tony's who I look up to," she said. "I've learned from Tony, so it didn't make sense.
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