Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Praiseworthy) is the only person to have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize twice. For this in-conversation event she will be joined by Evelyn Araluen (Dropbear) to unpack her latest novel, Praiseworthy, discussing allegory and epics, Indigenous forms of storytelling and climate catastrophe.
Presented by Mountain Festival in partnership with The Wheeler Centre
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Alexis Wright
Prof. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria, The Swan Book, and, most recently, Praiseworthy. Her works ...

Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry ...