Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne. She has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine. Her novel, Cold Enough for Snow (2022), is the inaugural winner of The Novel Prize and has been published by Giramondo in Australia, New Directions in the USA and Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK, and in translation in eighteen languages. The novel has also won the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and been shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Awards.
Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne. She has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine. Her novel, Cold Enough for Snow (2022), is the inaugural winner of The Novel Prize and has been published by Giramondo in Australia, New Directions in the USA and Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK, and in translation in eighteen languages. The novel has also won the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and been shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Awards.
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