Congratulations to our two authors longlisted for this year’s Stella Prize!
✨ Eunice Andrada for KONTRA (poetry)
✨ Lee Lai for Cannon (graphic novel)
Read the judges’ comments: bit.ly/40rSYZy
The four winners to date of The Novel Prize, a biennial award that recognises book-length works of literary fiction that explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style.
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Out now ✨ Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro, the winner of the 2024 Novel Prize.
‘A gorgeous work of collective witness set against an urban landscape… a surrealist, cinematic telling with an eye towards the future.’ – Electric Literature
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Congratulations to Eunice Andrada, who last night won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry for KONTRA! 🎉❤️🎉
Wrote the judges, ‘KONTRA is an exquisite work of precision… At once tender and defiant, KONTRA is a testament to lyrical mastery.’
Read more: bit.ly/46rj2Yj
Giramondo is thrilled to be a publishing host for this year's Open Book internship, a paid program aimed at fostering cultural diversity in the Australian publishing industry.
The Sydney internship is part-time over 21 weeks from May to October. Applications close 23 March: openbookinternship.org/
Coming soon 👀 (Pre-order now if you're into that sort of thing)
‘Sweetly oriented to a disciplined, detached way of telling, Helle balances glassy brilliance with radiant feeling. Unyielding and firm, they is a work of glorious, serene grace.’
A review by Isabella Gullifer-Laurie in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
Great to see that Giramondo has a new book coming from Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, and is also re-releasing her first book, Autobiography of a Marguerite, written in the 2012 MA workshop and originally published in Aotearoa by Hue & Cry
they by Helle Helle is a ‘Fiction Pick of the Week’! ✨✨
‘Danish writer Helle Helle will enchant readers with this short and subtle coming-of-age novel, the first in a trilogy… luminous.’ – Sydney Morning Herald
bit.ly/hellehellethey
Out 1 April 2026 ✨ Two books of poetry by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, author of the acclaimed Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life.
✨ Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama
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✨ Autobiography of a Marguerite
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It’s here: Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro, the winner of the 2024 Novel Prize. Officially published on 1 March in Australia, Giramondo subscribers will have received their copies in the mail already.
Learn more: bit.ly/RuinsChildGi...
Alexis Wright interviewed on Swedish TV.
A Swedish edition of Wright's award-winning novel Praiseworthy was published last year by Norstedts.
www.svtplay.se/video/84doGE...
‘[Farmer] proves once again in For the Seasons that the observance in language of the fine-grained reality of life in nature holds its own type of profit.’
In @thesaturdaypaper.com.au, Gregory Day reviews For the Seasons, a collection of haikus by Beverley Farmer (1941–2018).
bit.ly/fortheseasons
‘Simultaneously congenial, “hope-adjacent”, irreverent and discerning… an associative lucidity grounds this collection, yet each idea electrifies the next… the miracle of [Başkan’s] Two Hundred Million Musketeers is its unwavering rebuke of cynicism.’
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
‘The essays tread an impressively fine line – offering a take that is interesting and substantial, yet not hectoring… all are funny, gossipy and delightfully weird. The quality of the prose is also consistently high.’
A review of The Paris End’s new book.
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Out now ✨ they by Helle Helle, a deeply moving novella about the relationship of care between a schoolgirl and her dying mother; and For the Seasons, a newly discovered collection of 365 haikus by the late Beverley Farmer.
Order the books: giramondopublishing.com/
Geordie Williamson + Ivor Indyk on the work of Alexis Wright: her "big sky aesthetic", spiritual landscapes, and use of All Time (present, ancestral past, mythological past).
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Cannon by Lee Lai is a New York Times ‘best graphic novel of 2025!’
Learn more: giramondopublishing.com/books/lee-la...
Geordie Williamson on Alexis Wright, a @gleebooks.bsky.social conversation with Giramondo publisher Ivor Indyk, recorded for the SRB’s podcast, Fully Lit.
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Out 1 March ✨ Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro, winner of the 2024 Novel Prize.
bit.ly/RuinsChildGi...
‘Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and Ruins, Child is a visionary novel… every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.’ – Katie Kitamura
Giramondo is delighted to be publishing a trilogy of novels by the acclaimed Danish novelist Helle Helle, ‘one of Scandinavia’s finest authors’ (Dagbladet).
Learn more: bit.ly/3ZbglG3
With ‘wordplay reminiscent of the mesmerising Ania Walwicz… Başkan might be a new voice in Melbourne’s poetry, but it is an assured voice, and one that I hope we will keep hearing for years and books to come.’
Ender Başkan’s debut collection is reviewed in ABR by Kevin Brophy.
‘What I call true fiction is not – and I repeat not – autobiography. True fiction is a true account of the contents of the writer’s mind.’ – Gerald Murnane
Landscape With Landscape, first published in 1985 in Australia, is out now in the UK.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Our first two books of 2026 are back from the printers!
✨ For the Seasons, a collection of 365 haikus by the late Beverley Farmer
✨ they by Helle Helle, a tender portrait of a mother and daughter, and the first in a trilogy by the acclaimed Scandinavian novelist
Learn more: bit.ly/49eAQYo
Books we’ve published in 2025 ❤️
Giramondo subscribers will have received these titles in their mailbox before anyone else. Consider subscribing for yourself, or for a loved one who needs more quality literature in their life.
Learn more: giramondopublishing.com/subscribe
Congratulations to Judith Beveridge, recipient of this year’s Creative Australia Lifetime Achievement in Literature award! ⭐
Judith Beveridge is the award-winning author of eight collections of poetry, including Tintinnabulum and Sun Music.
Learn more: bit.ly/JudithBeveri...
Out now 💖 HEAT 22
Our final issue of the year features a bumper crop of new writing by Oliver Driscoll, George Mouratidis, Eila Vinwynn, Ceridwen Dovey, Elvira Navarro (translated by Christina MacSweeney), Adam Aitken and Lucy Van.
Subscribe: giramondopublishing.com/heat/
Our two November releases:
⭐ EXCLUSIVE! Dispatches from The Paris End by Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz
⭐ Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan
Subscribe to Giramondo to receive our books all throughout the year: giramondopublishing.com/books/giramo...
‘KONTRA is, in many ways, a surgical operation on lineage, on language, on desire. This project engages the canon I grew up with – the kontrabida as she exists in Filipino media and her cultural equivalents across the world: women punished for wanting.’ – Eunice Andrada
Read more: bit.ly/4mNO8yq
Out now ✨ KONTRA, the latest collection by the award-winning poet Eunice Andrada.
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‘Few poets can unsettle the contours of desire and power like Eunice Andrada… A work of ferocious beauty.’
– Manisha Anjali
‘Andrada’s most assured and impressive collection yet.’
– Bella Li
