Grief, loss, and a glimmer of hope: Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin prize for Extinctions
Josephine Wilson has won the 2017 Miles Franklin award for her novel Extinctions. Judging panel chair Richard Neville stated Wilson's novel, "explores ageing, adoption, grief and remorse, empathy and self-centredness". It takes a skillful and thoughtful novelist to pack so many "big issues" into a single narrative, but Wilson has achieved it, and the novel […]