Tim Winton has won the 2019 Voss Literary Prize for his novel The Shepherd’s Hut, a book described as “an urgent masterpiece about solitude, unlikely friendship, and the raw business of survival.”
Winton’s win was announced last night in Wollongong by the Voss estate and the Australian University Heads of English, with Kate Hoy of Penguin Random House accepting the award on his behalf. The novel was selected from a shortlist that included such novels as Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip (the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner) and Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe.
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton’s life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.
The Shepherd’s Hut is a searing look at what it takes to keep love and hope alive in a parched and brutal world …
This novel has been a firm favourite amongst Booktopia’s staff, including John Purcell, who wrote that “we come back to Tim Winton because there is always something true in what he writes – a truth that can’t be blurted out or rolled into a neat little aphorism, but has to be felt or experienced through the telling. He is Australia’s truth teller and The Shepherd’s Hut is truth at its most brutal.” (Read his full review here.)
Congratulations Tim on winning the 2019 Voss Literary Prize!
Find out more about the Prize here.


The Shepherd's Hut
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.
The Shepherd’s Hut is a searing look at what it takes to keep love and hope alive in a parched and brutal world...
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