‘The Night Guest’ wins the Voss Literary Prize

Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of the inaugural $6500 Voss Literary Prize.

The Voss Literary Prize is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss and awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year. The award is overseen by the Australian University Heads of English, and judged by Brenda Walker, Philip Butterss, Brigitta Oluba, Amanda Nettelbeck and Anthony Uhlmann.

In The Night Guest, ‘the imagined becomes real through tricks played by perception,’ said Uhlmann, who described how the ideas in the book can ‘offer new insights into who and what we are’.

Titles shortlisted for the prize were Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador), Barracuda (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U), Eyrie (Tim Winton, Penguin) and The Swan Book (Alexis Wright, Giramondo).

The Night Guest has also been shortlisted in the Fiction category of the Guardian First Book Award.

For more information see the Voss Literary Prize website here.

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