Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and now lives in France. In 2006, at the age of twenty-three, she published her debut novel, Swallow the Air, which was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for numerous awards.
Almost ten years later came her second book, the short story collection After the Carnage — by then, she had settled in France and had worked under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka, as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In 2018, she wrote the screenplay for Carriberrie, a documentary on Indigenous dance.
In 2019, The Yield marked a major milestone in her career. The novel was translated and published in French as La Récolte (Gaïa, 2021), among other languages. In 2020, it won the Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Tara lives in France and is currently working on screenplays for film alongside her fourth book, Geography.