Even as we speak, they will be getting stuck into the $120-a-head gourment nosh (it had better be gourmet, at that price) at the Miles Franklin presentation dinner. It's 8.35 pm in Sydney; I imagine the announcement is being made about now.
So here's a last-minute prediction, except that my psychic powers are getting a lot of interference and static from my wishes in the matter: I really, really, really want Alexis Wright's Carpentaria to win.
And I do actually think it might be going to.
Now I'll check the ABC news site (they were first with the news last year) and see whether I was right or not. Watch this space ...
UPDATE: Hah!
Another tag for this post? "Prescience"!
ReplyDeleteGood call, PC. Wasn't there similar clairvoyance last year? How do you do it?
ReplyDeleteMagic.
ReplyDeleteNice pick. And a great result too.
ReplyDeleteyay! for Alexis Wright. I couldn't think of a better juxtaposition, on the day the PM decided to be seen to act on Aboriginal affairs. And it gave her non-fiction book some needed coverage too.
ReplyDeleteLucy Sussex
Yes yes yes yes yes. Very very very good pick ladies & gentlemen of the board. Very good pick
ReplyDeleteWell picked! :-)
ReplyDeleteA worthy winner, I think.