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Author Interview Evie Wyld


With two acclaimed novels under her belt, Evie Wyld’s dazzling new work looks set to win further praise


Alice O’Keefe @aliceokbooks 40 13th December 2019


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or a writer with two published novels to date, Evie Wyld has accrued a veritable haul of prizes. Her 2009 début, Aſter the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which explored the trickle-down effect of trauma on the lives of two Australian men, scooped the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, one of the oldest literary prizes in the UK and awarded to a writer under 35. Her second novel All the Birds, Singing, the story of shearer Jake Whyte and her dark, abusive past, was set partly in Australia. It secured Wyld a place on Granta’s once-in-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists list in 2013. The novel was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award and went on to win three prizes including Australia’s top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Wyld was born and raised in south London, but her mother is from Australia. Growing up, Wyld spent alternate summers on her maternal grandparents’ sugar cane farm in New South Wales, and has spoken of Australia as “the first place I go when I am thinking creatively”.


Photography: Urszula Soltys


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