Charlotte Wood was hoping to become the first Australian woman to win the Booker Prize.
Peter Carey, a two-time winner of the Booker Prize, always refers to literary prizes as a “crapshoot”. Sadly for Charlotte Wood, who was hoping to become the first Australian woman author to win the coveted and influential prize for fiction written in English, the roll of the dice in this year’s Booker fell in favour of English novelist Samantha Harvey.
It’s a line that chimes with Harvey’s remarks on receiving the award. She said looking at the earth from space was “a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realising for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves and what we do to life on earth - human and other - we do to ourselves.
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