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Can we declare Catherine Chidgey the winner of literary 2023? Chidgey’s a dark rural drama featuring a talking magpie, won the year’s Ockham fiction prize and the author pocketed $64,000. The book, which came out last year and has been reprinted a number of times, remained a constant in the bestseller lists, alongside the author and creative writing teacher’s 2023Anew novel, is in the wings.

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