The Yield: Tara June Winch in Conversation with Matt Davis

Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:00 PM EDT

The Cheuse Center is partnering with Solid State Books to present a conversation with Tara June Winch about her novel The Yield: Thursday September 17 at 4 PM.

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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).