With the help of the Australian Embassy and the Australia Council for the Arts, we are honored to welcome the Australian writer Tara June Winch. Tara was scheduled to join us in-person in September, but she will instead become our first virtual resident at the Cheuse Center, speaking with our students and faculty online as well as conducting events over the course of the fall semester.
Tara June Winch is an Indigenous Australian (Wiradjuri) writer based in France. Her first novel Swallow the Air, (UQP) 2006 was critically acclaimed. In 2008, she was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The short-story collection After the Carnage, (UQP) was published in 2016 also to critical acclaim. In 2018 she wrote the script for the Indigenous dance documentary Carriberrie. Her current novel The Yield, (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin) was published in 2019 and won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 2020 new editions are published in France (Actes Sud) and the US/CA/UK (HarperVia, HarperCollins).
Below are the dates of Tara’s two public events, with perhaps another on the way:
-- Thursday, October 8 at 4:00 PM with Solid State Books in Washington, D.C.
--Monday, October 26 at 4:30 PM in conjunction with Fall for the Book
September 15, 2020
