Tony Birch

Tony Birch is the award-winning author of four novels: Women & Children, which won the 2024 The Age Fiction Book of the Year; The White Girl, which won the 2020 NSW Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award; Ghost River, which won the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2012. He was awarded the 2017 Patrick White Award for his powerful, engaging and moving stories. He has also published two poetry books and four short story collections and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.