![]() Robbie Arnott is one of the most thrilling and distinctive writers at work in Australia today. It is an astonishing, transporting novel that invites us to look differently at the world we inhabit. ‘The team at Text are over the moon that The Rain Heron was chosen from an incredibly strong shortlist heavily weighted to the island state. ![]() ‘The Age Book of the Year was awarded to many great books over its first four decades, and it’s wonderful to see the prize’s resurrection in 2021: a glimmer of light in a dark time for the arts,’ said David Winter, Arnott’s editor at Text. The judges for the 2021 award were poet Thuy On, editor and author Susan Wyndham and the Age books editor Jason Steger. Hugely imaginative and lyrical, but also grounded in some deeper issues about the climate and what human beings do to trying to redeem ourselves in some ways about what we’ve done to the world we’re living in.’ The Age editor Gay Alcorn said The Rain Heron is an ‘extremely well-deserved book to win … exceptionally original, I’ve never read anything like it. ![]() ![]() The Rain Heron was chosen from a shortlist of seven announced in August. ![]() It’s the 40th time the award has been presented following a nine-year hiatus.Īrnott receives $10,000 courtesy of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Arnott has won the 2021 Age Book of the Year for his novel The Rain Heron (Text). ![]()
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