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Australian author Charlotte Wood shortlisted for Booker Prize
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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11/13/2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been nominated for the Booker Prize for her novel ‘Stone Yard Devotional’.
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Charlotte Wood is no stranger to awards and accolades and now her book The Stoneyard Devotional
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is one of just six nominated for one of the most prestigious prizes in the world, the
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Booker Prize.
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She spoke to us here on the red carpet in London.
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To be on the long list was just a huge and lovely shock.
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To make the short list was just incredible so I just feel super lucky to be here on a
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list of amazing novels.
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For those that haven't read it, what is Stoneyard Devotional about?
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Stoneyard Devotional is about a woman who abandons her marriage and her job and her
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home in the city and sort of almost stumbles into living in a cloistered religious community
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down on the Monaro in New South Wales, which is where I grew up and where my narrator grew
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up.
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It's about a whole lot of things including forgiveness and atonement.
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It's about the moral challenge of despair.
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I spoke to one of your fans a little earlier and she said that you're already considered
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a boss in Australia and that the rest of the world is now catching on.
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Is that how it feels?
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Well that's a very lovely thing to be said.
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I have felt so much love from Australia.
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My phone's been pinging all day with messages of good luck and just of support.
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It makes me feel a bit emotional actually.
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The last time an Australian won the Booker Prize was Richard Flanagan in 2014.
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No Australian woman has ever won the top prize and so if Charlotte Wood were to win this
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year, it'd be a historic moment and a proud one for Australia.
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