Michelle de Kretser

WINNER, STELLA PRIZE, 2025
WINNER, PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD, FICTION, 2025
SHORTLISTED, THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025
SHORTLISTED, VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD, FICTION, 2025
SHORTLISTED, BOOKPEOPLE BOOKDATA ADULT FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2025

‘One of the living masters of the art of fiction.’ Max Porter

‘Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and Theory and Practice a lightning strike of a book.’ Ali Smith

One of Australia’s most awarded and acclaimed novelists published in the Text Classics for the first time.

From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade.