Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize

Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.

A Cardiff writer has won one of the top literary honours presented at this year’s National Eisteddfod. Rebecca Thomas has won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize, presented at a special ceremony supported by the James Pantyfedwen Trust on the Pavilion stage today. The nine entrants were challenged to write an unpublished no