![]() ![]() Gideon Haigh won the $40,000 Douglas Stewart prize for non-fiction for his 25th book The Office, an ''elegant, witty and informative'' history of workplaces from Egyptian scribes (''the original stylus-pushers'') to portrayals in literature and TV shows such as Mad Men to fast-changing life in glass towers. The $40,000 Christina Stead prize for fiction went to Carrie Tiffany for her ''wonderfully lyrical'' novel about rural life, Mateship with Birds, which recently won the Stella Prize for women's writing and is shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Īnimal People by Charlotte Wood, shortlisted for the Christina Stead, won the people's choice award and a special award was made to the novelist David Ireland for his lifetime achievement. She is quiet, soft-spoken, and shy, but eventually she begins to warm up to. So the verse novel was the exact genre for Ruby Moonlight''. Chino Kafu (Voiced by: Inori Minase) Chino is a 14-year-old girl and the granddaughter of the Rabbit House Cafe founder. The judges said she had ''created a new language'' in her ''innovative poems take up traditional narrative voices, bringing past conflicts vividly to life with short and agile lines that are lucid, refined and luminous''.Ĭobby Eckermann said her writing captured ''the desert's song … an essential heartbeat for me. ![]()
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