The Weekend (Broché)

Biographie de Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood's novel The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year and was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. In 2016 Charlotte was named the Charles Perkins Centre's inaugural Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney, a radical initiative bringing science and art together in a world-class research facility : that experience inspired and informed the writing of The Weekend.
The Weekend was an instant national bestseller on publication in Charlotte's native Australia, was one of the bestselling novels of 2019, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2020. It was published internationally in 2020 and was chosen as a book of the year by The Times, Observer, Independent and Good Housekeeping, and received praise from the likes of Tessa Hadley, Patrick Gale, Marian Keyes, Lionel Shriver, Nina Stibbe, Simon Mayo, Elizabeth Day, Paula Hawkins and Eimear McBride.
In 2019 Charlotte was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant services to literature". She lives in Sydney.