Stella Prize Winner 2024

Congratulations to this year’s Stella Prize winner, Alexis Wright for her novel, Praiseworthy.

Taken from the email from the Stella Prize:

Stella is thrilled to announce Alexis Wright as the winner of the 2024 Stella Prize for her canon-crushing novel Praiseworthy, published by Giramondo Publishing.

This is the second time Alexis Wright wins the Stella Prize. She is the first author to win the Stella Prize twice. 

Beejay Silcox, 2024 Stella Prize Chair of Judges, said on behalf of the judging panel (Eleanor Jackson, Cheryl Leavy, Bram Presser and Yves Rees):

Praiseworthy is mighty in every conceivable way: mighty of scope, mighty of fury, mighty of craft, mighty of humour, mighty of language, mighty of heart. Praiseworthy is not only a great Australian novel – perhaps the great Australian novel – it is also a great Waanyi novel. And it is written in the wild hope that, one day, all Australian readers might understand just what that means. I do not understand. Not yet. But I can feel history calling to me in these pages. Calling to all of us. Imagine if we listened.