Jesica Au's beautiful novel Cold Enough for Snow about a woman going to Japan with her mother has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. (Shown here with some of my old favourites of Japanese Literature.)
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[ID: Pale green and dark green book with white text Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow on stack of books against pale green wall.]
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Set in the tough 1930s Sydney underworld, Fiona Kelly Macgregor pieces together the life of Iris Webber in her intense and poetic new novel Iris.
See a review on #theconversation
https://theconversation.com/in-iris-fiona-kelly-mcgregor-recreates-the-criminal-underworld-of-depression-era-sydney-190426
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