Else Fitzgerald wins 2019 Richell prize for short stories that 'feel like a revelation'

Judges hail collection on the challenge of climate change, Nearly Curtains, as ‘a firework show of bursting ideas’

• Read an extract from the award-winning collection here

When writer Else Fitzgerald was a kid, drought sent her family bankrupt.

They owned a nursery in regional Victoria. “We lived our lives by the weather,” Fitzgerald said. “So I have this fascination with how people deal with the challenges of climate change.”

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