Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has been garlanded with awards and ascended to new heights of international recognition, including entering the betting table last year as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Ladbrokes put her odds of winning at 8/1, before suspending any further bets on her.
It seems only fitting that Black Inc. has decided to place the spotlight on Wright for the final volume of their provocative “Writers on Writers” series. Endlessly experimental and uncompromising in her vision, Wright has pioneered new vocabularies and narrative techniques in her quest to mould the English-language novel into a form capable of expressing a sovereign Aboriginal worldview.
