Trent Dalton sweeps the pool in the Indie Awards for his book Love Stories. Photo by Russell Shakespeare.
Last night, Australian independent booksellers awarded Love Stories by Trent Dalton two awards, naming it the Non-fiction Award winner and also crowning it their Book of the Year.
Dalton has been golden boy of Australian publishing ever since his debut, Boy Swallows Universe, a multi-prize winning novel that also took out the debut fiction category in the Indie Book Awards 2019 as well as several acclaims in the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards.
Thuy On is the former Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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