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My parents’ Betta electrical store, Springvale: the shop was our life, and it was enough

They were survivors of the killing fields and Mao’s China – and their shop was not just their existence, it was their second chance at redemption, writes author Alice Pung

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Friday essay: ‘the magnitude of their love was extraordinary’ – how an elderly couple showed Alice Pung the power of a good story

Every year on our birthdays, Uncle Martin and Auntie Stella would drive to our concrete house behind the carpet factory and gift me and my brother a book. They brought me Haffertee Hamster and Haffertee’s First Easter. They brought Alex Betsy Glowworm Shines Her Light and Friska, My Friend. There…

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‘Live in the light, but carry the dark’: John Marsden’s books are his legacy – but so is his empathy

Celebrated author and educator John Marsden, best known for his dystopian young adult Tomorrow series, has died aged 74.

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Diversity in kids’ books is not a ‘woke agenda’. And there certainly isn’t too much of it

An Australian bookseller has said there aren’t enough books about white kids – but diverse creators like Alice Pung are fighting for even tiny moments of representation

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The best Australian children’s books of 2023: Alice Pung, Davina Bell, Sean Avery and more

From picture books to young adult novels and nonfiction, one teacher-librarian picks her favourite reads

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Sarah Holland-Batt wins Stella prize for ‘tender’ poems about her father’s death

Poet and outspoken advocate for aged care reform is the second poet in a row to win $60,000 award for Australian women and non-binary writers

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The 2023 Stella Prize shortlist is one of its most diverse. Why has it changed so much over the decade?

Earlier this month, a key commentator said the issue of women writers "not being taken seriously in this country" was "solved", and credited the Stella Prize. But Stella’s co-CEO disagrees.

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Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award

No major publishers represented among final six books in contention for $60,000 prize for female authors

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I believed readers only wanted trauma stories from writers of colour. Then I became an author

For so long, it seemed that readers were only interested in the experiences of people like me if we were traumatised, not triumphant – and I internalised this as an indisputable fact

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‘I broke out in a cold sweat’: could you stomach seeing your memories of bullying play out on TV?

Bad Behaviour author Rebecca Starford and the team behind a dramatisation of her memoir reflect on how they recreated her frightening account of her elite boarding school

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Witty and relevant, a stage adaptation of Alice Pung's Laurinda is filled with intelligence and humour

Review: Laurinda, directed by Petra Kalive.

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Laurinda review – a disappointingly uneven adaptation of a beloved book

Based on Alice Pung’s novel about an Asian student in an elite Australian school in the 1990s, this timely production feels scattershot and unconvincing

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Morning mail: interest rate rise looms, space debris hits farm, Beyoncé cuts offensive lyric

Tuesday: Economists are predicting the Reserve Bank will raise interest rates from 1.35% to 1.85%. Plus: Beyoncé called out over ableist term

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Laurinda takes the stage: ‘Private school culture needs to change – the insularity, the entitlement’

Author Alice Pung and the two minds behind a new adaptation reflect on the beloved story of a girl navigating high school – Mean Girls meets Fight Club, with an Asian-Australian twist

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A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared concern across the volumes leave me wondering whether there is something in the zeitgeist.

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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 shortlist reading guide

The shortlist for Australia’s top literary award includes an epic novel about a life shaped by trauma, and a pregnant teen’s letter to the baby she may never get to raise.

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Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60,000

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