Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides

Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won the Miles Franklin award.

If anything, the heart of the story — one of reclaiming language, culture…