Five of the eight winners in Australia’s richest annual literary prize pool are first-time authors this year, with a novella little more than 100 pages long collecting the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature.
Cold Enough for Snow by Melbourne writer Jessica Au also won the fiction category at the Victorian premier’s literary awards on Thursday night, bringing her total winnings to $125,000 for a book the Guardian’s critic Imogen Dewey described as “graceful and precise”.
