Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence

Journalist’s ‘incredibly powerful’ work the result of four years of research into domestic abuse, with lens turned firmly on perpetrators

“Domestic abuse and coercive control steals people’s language away from them,” says Jess Hill. She has spent the past six years of her life trying to give it back.

Hill has won two Walkleys, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards for her reporting on domestic violence. Now, she can add the Stella prize to that list.

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