‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship

Why 'The Coin' by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher has won the Dylan Thomas Prize

(The Conversation) – Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University (The Conversation) – Yasmin Zaher’s remarkable novel The Coin has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under the age of 40. This is not a story that begins at the beginning. Instead, its narrator starts with dirt and an obsession with cleanliness, but suggests later that the coin of the title – an Israeli shekel that she accidentally swallowed on a family road trip …

‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship

Australian author Michelle de Kretser has won the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice. In her acceptance speech for the prestigious literary award, the Sri Lanka-born author said she believed truthful speech about what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza is being shut down