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The 2013 Stella Prize

The first-ever winner of the Stella Prize is Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship with Birds. Tiffany receives $50,000 in prize money. 

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2013 Winner

Carrie Tiffany

Mateship With Birds

Fiction · Pan Macmillan

“Mateship with Birds is a deceptively gentle-looking novel whose calm surface belies its many sharp and frank observations about the world. Set in country Victoria in the 1950s, it follows the fortunes of two people whose loneliness is offset by the many active strands of their daily lives.”

– 2013 Stella Prize Judges

About the author

Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. Her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book and the WA Premier’s Award for Fiction. 


2013 Stella Prize Shortlist

Courtney Collins
The Burial
Michelle de Kretser
Questions of Travel
Lisa Jacobson
The Sunlit Zone
Cate Kennedy
Like a House on Fire
Margo Lanagan
Sea Hearts
Carrie Tiffany
Mateship With Birds

News
April 2013

The Inaugural Stella Prize Winner: Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds

We are delighted to announce that the first-ever winner of the Stella Prize is Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship with Birds.

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News
April 2013

The Inaugural Stella Prize Award Night: The Speeches

Discover highlights and speeches from Helen Garner, Kerryn Goldsowthy, Aviva Tuffield and Carrie Tiffany at the inaugural Stella Prize Award Night.

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Interviews
April 2013

The Stella Interview: Carrie Tiffany

In this special Stella interview Carrie Tiffany muses on writing Mateship with Birds in thirteen different locations and how she knows when a novel is finished.

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2013 Stella Prize Longlist

Romy Ash
Floundering
Dylan Coleman
Mazin Grace
Courtney Collins
The Burial
Robin de Crespigny
The People Smuggler
Michelle de Kretser
Questions of Travel
Amy Espeseth
Sufficient Grace
Lisa Jacobson
The Sunlit Zone
Cate Kennedy
Like a House on Fire
Margo Lanagan
Sea Hearts
Patti Miller
The Mind of a Thief
Stephanie Radok
An Opening
Carrie Tiffany
Mateship With Birds


‘The shortlist features a wide variety of subject matter and genre: the list contains a collection of short stories and a verse novel; it includes fantasy, speculative fiction, two historical novels and one that has been described as Australian Gothic. There are stories set in the past, the present and the future; there are stories set in both urban and rural Australia as well as in other countries and in imagined places.

We noticed a strong common theme in several of the books on the shortlist: Sea Hearts, The Sunlit Zone and Mateship with Birds all explore in thoughtful, imaginative and unexpected ways the relationships and the boundaries between the human and the non-human, showing where those boundaries are weakest and might be broken down.

In choosing a shortlist of six books from the longlist of twelve, the judges concentrated on picking the six we thought were the best books regardless of form, genre and subject matter. While no non-fiction book appears on the shortlist, we were glad to have been able to longlist three, chosen from a large field of entries in which fiction outnumbered non-fiction by almost four to one.

The consistent high quality of the shortlist makes every book listed a serious contender for the prize.’

– Kerryn Goldsworthy, chair of the 2013 Stella Prize judging panel


2013 Judges

Rafael Epstein
Kerryn Goldsworthy (chair)
Kate Grenville
Claudia Karvan
Fiona Stager

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