The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award
$32.14
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
The powerful novel of truthtelling as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper, determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.
August Gondiwindi returns home for her grandfather’s burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761620621 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761620622 |
| Author: | Tara June Winch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 137mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France.
Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. A 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016. In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage, was published in 2016. After the Carnage was longlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection.
She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary, Carriberrie, which screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and toured internationally.
The Yield won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the People’s Choice Award, and Book of the Year at the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
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