Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb Instagram – Just taking a second to reflect on this feat – one person winning the @thestellaprize and @milesfranklinliteraryaward in quick succession, with a book that took ten years to write. Quick and slow. Alexis Wright’s contribution to Australian literature is obviously staggering but the thing that I have always found unique in her writing is the way it trains you as a reader (esp as a non Indigenous reader) to think about time in a different way. When I read her I can feel my brain rustily squealing and protesting and trying to reassert the orthodoxies of time to which I’m accustomed, but after that din dies off you start to get what she’s teaching you which is a kind of deep listening. An incredible and generous thing to be able to do. How lucky we are to have her. And congratulations of course. | Posted on 02/Aug/2024 11:07:26