Miles Franklin winner Amanda Lohrey. Photo credit: Richard Bugg.
Miles Franklin winner Amanda Lohrey. Photo credit: Richard Bugg. It was in a bare quiet room beside the ANU Classics Museum where prize-winning author Amanda Lohrey found the energy to continue writing. Here, Lohrey spent "three wonderfully quiet undistracted months" as the 2016 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow with the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The fellowship was created to provide creatives with the space and time to undertake their work at the ANU. By the end of her time writing in this room, Lohrey had finished her novel, The Labyrinth . "I don't know if I could have finished it without that fellowship," Lohrey says. "I was stalled in the work at the time and being at the university and turning up every day to that quiet room beside the Classics Museum released something in me." The novel has just won the $60 000 Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most prestigious literature prize.
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