Wilson, the 60th winner of Australia’s most high-profile literary prize for fiction, says ‘it’s not the sort of thing I ever imagined would happen to me’
“I can’t tell you how extraordinary it is for this to happen,” said author and 2017 Miles Franklin award-winner Josephine Wilson. “It’s not the sort of thing I ever imagined would happen to me.”
On Thursday night, Wilson was revealed as the 60th winner of Australia’s most high-profile literary prize for fiction for her novel, Extinctions, which was hailed by the judges as “compassionate and unapologetically intelligent”.
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