Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam
by Kelly Burke from World news | The Guardian on (#6QNTV)
Judges praise Anam as profoundly relevant' with Daniel Browning, Amy Crutchfield and Will Kostakis also winning in their categories
A debut novel exploring trauma, displacement and political exile has won the $80,000 Prime Minister's Literary award for fiction.
When it was reviewed by the Guardian, Andre Dao's Anam was described as a work of unusual power and beauty". But it began as a nonfiction project documenting his grandfather's 10-year detention in a Vietnamese prison without trial.
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