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Wisdom Tree : Five Novellas
2016
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2016
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The story's narrator, Paul, remembers 'a giant who came to stay with his family when his father was trying to bring American football to Australia. The tall guy in question was a player called Knut Knudsen; as a small boy, our narrator sees him as the modern day equivalent of the Colossus of Rhodes. Knudsen has dreams of becoming of all things, a writer. And it turns out that when our narrator is all grown up, he himself has become a writer, and is on an author tour to a Canadian festival... As a side trip from his festival appearances, he reconnects with Knudsen, who has published several books and is now married and teaching creative writing at a university college' (Caroline Baum, Booktopia).
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Awards
- 2017 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Fiction Book Award
- 2017 finalist Queensland Literary Awards — The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
- 2017 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award
- 2017 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
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