First Nations writer Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for her highly acclaimed novel, Praiseworthy.
Ms Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin in 2007 for her book, Carpentaria.
The 73-year-old is one of six authors up for the $60,000 prize which include Gregory Day's The Bell of the World, André Dao's Anam, Sanya Rushdi's Hospital, Jen Craig's Wall, and Hossein Asgari's Only Sound Remains.
Ms Wright has had a stellar couple of months after becoming the first person to win the $60,000 Stellar Prize for literature twice.
In March, she was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
She recently won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, one of the UK's longest-running literary awards, for her book Praiseworthy.
Last September, Praiseworthy won the University of Queensland Fiction book award, and the work has also been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's award.
"Everything about Praiseworthy is expansive: its themes, its imagery, its vibrant demotic prose," the judges said.
"The novel is at once an epic of classical proportions and a wild comedic romp. Set in a fictional town permanently enshrouded in a mysterious haze, the story takes a quirky Indigenous family and renders them in mythical terms.
"A stylistic tour de force, its tone capable of switching in an instant between the lyrical and the wickedly satirical, Praiseworthy triumphantly assesses its themes against the ultimate measures: the timelessness of Country and the indomitable spirit of Aboriginal Sovereignty."
Ms Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth. Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland.
Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland.
She is the inaugural winner of the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
