The Life To Come author says that even in tumultuous political times, literature has an important role to play
The first time Michelle de Kretser won the Miles Franklin literary award, she was woken up in the middle of the night in a hotel in East Anglia by a phone call relaying the news. She was scarcely less surprised when she was told this week that she’d won it again, this time for The Life to Come.
“It felt incredible the first time but it feels even more amazing the second time,” De Kretser said.
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