Author of Black Rock White City, which has won Australia’s premier literary prize, says he feels a bit of sunlight after many years of absolute obscurity
Two years ago, Melbourne’s AS Patric couldn’t even get a rejection slip for his book, Black Rock White City. Not one of the big Australian publishers responded when he sent it; he couldn’t raise a pulse.
Now that same book, eventually nabbed by small independent publisher Transit Lounge, has won Australia’s premier literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin award. It edged out the presumptive bookies’ favourite The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, and the three other Miles Franklin shortlisted books: Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, Leap by Myfanwy Jones, and Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar.
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