Congratulations Vicki Laveau-Harvie On Being Longlisted For The 2019 Stella Prize

 Congratulations Vicki Laveau-Harvie on her longlist nomination for The Erratics. 

A former academic and translator, Vicki has always believed in the power of the written word, the necessity of getting your tenses right and not using 'I' after a preposition. Comments from the judges below:

A gripping memoir, Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s The Erratics mines the psychological damage wrought on a nuclear family by a monstrous personality, set against the bitter cold of a Canadian winter. The narrative is brimming with honesty, and we are rewarded with an evocative and expansive view of a family that has more than its fair share of dysfunction. The judges were constantly delighted by this surprise of a book.

Stella Prize 2019 longlist

·         Little Gods by Jenny Ackland (Allen & Unwin)

·         Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette Australia)

·         Bluebottle by Belinda Castles (Allen & Unwin)

·         The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo (Scribe)

·         The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House)

·         The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones (Text Publishing)

·         Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau (Brow Books)

·         The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie (Finch Publishing)

·         Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)

·         Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP)

·         Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books)

·         The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright (Giramondo Publishing)

The shortlist for the Stella prize will be released on 8 March, with the winner announced in Melbourne on 9 April.