Breaking: Melbourne writer Jessica Au has won this year’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her novella Cold Enough for Snow.
is fewer than 100 pages and tells the story of a woman visiting Japan with her mother, the first time they have travelled together as adults. They do all the usual things that tourists do - galleries, museums, restaurants, shops - and travel around the country.
“I really respect prose that is very clear and direct. Rachel Cusk, for example, writes like this. There’s something in me that likes prose that you can’t really hide behind.”, was published almost 12 years ago, since when, she admits, she had been pondering what would eventually become. She was working on a book of short stories, but found only one that was really working.“I basically had to break it down and think if I was to begin it again, what would it be.
She has just completed a PhD in international politics and says she has always been split between her two great loves: traditional academic non-fiction and creative non-fiction.
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