Tara June Winch has been named the winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award for her novel The Yield (Penguin Random House). Winch receives $60,000 in prize money for a book that was characterised as ‘haunting and accomplished’ by a judging panel that included The Australian journalist Murray Waldren, academic and literary critic Dr Melinda Harvey and Sydney bookseller Lindy Jones.
In her acceptance speech as part of the YouTube-streamed ceremony, Winch highlighted the hypocrisy of Australians paying of respect to traditional owners of the land while not taking action on deaths in custody of Indigenous Australians.
