Tara June Winch - Wikipedia

Tara June Winch - Wikipedia



Tara June Winch

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Tara June Winch

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Born 2 December 1983 (age 36)[1]

Wollongong, Australia

Occupation Writer

Children 1

Website tarajunewinch.com

Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Indigenous Australian writer.





Contents

1 Biography

2 Awards and nominations

3 Bibliography

3.1 Books

3.2 Anthologies

3.3 Essays and reporting

3.4 Film

4 References

Biography

Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, Australia, in 1983. Her father is from the Wiradjuri nation in western NSW, and she grew up in the coastal area of Woonona within the Wollongong region: she often explores the two geographical places in her fiction.[2] She is based in Australia and France.[3]



Her first novel, Swallow the Air (2006), won several Australian literary awards. The judges for the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "As with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion".[4]



The critical reception for her second book, After the Carnage (2016), was positive. A review in The Australian stated that "Winch can pack a punch and break your heart within a few pages" and that "The personal-is-political worldview flexes Winch's considerable literary muscle".[5]



Awards and nominations

2003: State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, Runner up and Maureen Donahoe Encouragement award[6]

2004: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, David Unaipon Award for unpublished indigenous writers

2006: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for indigenous writing

2007: Dobbie Award

2007: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, UTS Award for New Writing

2007: The Sydney Morning Herald, Best Young Australian Novelists Award

2007: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlisted[7]

2007: The Age Book of the Year: Shortlisted[7]

2008: Literature Recipient of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Wole Soyinka was her mentor for this event.[7]

2008: nominated for the Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Outstanding Achievement in Literature.

2016: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — highly commended

2017: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction — Shortlisted[8]

2017: Queensland Literary Awards Short Story Collection — Shortlisted

2020: Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction — Shortlisted for The Yield[9]

2020: Stella Prize — Shortlisted for The Yield[10]

2020: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and People's Choice Award for The Yield[11]

2020: Miles Franklin Award — Won for The Yield[12]

Bibliography

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Books

Winch, Tara June (2006). Swallow the Air. University of Queensland Press.

Winch, Tara June (2016). After the Carnage. University of Queensland Press.

Winch, Tara June (2019). The Yield. Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books.

Anthologies

Winch, Tara June (2005). Frank Moorhouse (ed.). "Cloud Busting". Best Australian Stories. Black Inc.

Winch, Tara June (2006). "from Swallow the Air". MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Vol 18. University of Hawai'i.

Winch, Tara June (2008). Anita Heiss; Peter Minter (eds.). "Cloud Busting". Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. Allen & Unwin.

Winch, Tara June (2012). "It's too Difficult to Explain". McSweeney's 41. McSweeney's Publishing LLC.

Winch, Tara June (2015). "Cloud Busting". Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women. Black Inc.

Essays and reporting

Winch, Tara June (2007). "Summers Gone". Sydney Morning Herald. 21-23 Dec (Good Weekend Magazine): 29–30, 33, 35.

Winch, Tara June (2007). "Mending a Broken Link". The Next Big Thing. Griffith Review.

Winch, Tara June (2013). "Skatestan". VICE Magazine. September.

Winch, Tara June (2013). "Long Way Home". VOGUE Magazine Australia. April: 46–.

Winch, Tara June (2014). "Bringing up bilingual bébé". Perspectives. Meanjin. 73 (1): 12–14.

Winch, Tara June (2015). "Author". Motherhood and Creativity. Affirm Press: 25-.

Winch, Tara June (2018). "First, Second, Third, Fourth". Growing up Aboriginal in Australia. Black Inc: 282–.

Film

Carriberrie (Screenwriter) Winch, Tara June (2018) [13]

References

 Tara June Winch at University of Queensland Press

 "Swallow the Air".

 "Tara June Winch, Writer".

 Wyndham, Susan (2007) "A fairytale beginning," The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts and Entertainment Section, 2–3 June 2007, p. 9

 Varrenti, Elly (2016) "Tara June Winch's After the Carnage: lives reshaped by memories," The Australian, Review Section, 3 September 2016

 State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, Runner up and Maureen Donahoe Encouragement award Archived 11 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Slq.qld.gov.au. Retrieved on 2011-11-06.

 Moran, Jennifer (2008) "Indigenous writer makes shortlist for coveted prize", The Canberra Times, 2008-04-11, p. 5

 [1] Morris, Linda (2017)"NSW Premier's Award 2017 shortlist celebrates short storytelling", Sydney Morning Herald 2017-04-26.

 "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

 "Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

 Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.

 "Miles Franklin won by Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch for novel of family, history and language". ABC News. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.

 "Carriberrie".