Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is an Australian writer best known for Carpentaria, her 2006 novel that won the Miles Franklin Award, and for Praiseworthy, which won the same prize in 2024. She was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 and 2024, and she is also the author of Plains of Promise and Swan Book. Her work includes four novels, a biography and several works of nonfiction, and it appears in anthologies and journals.