Ep 259: Tony Birch on working class storytelling in Australia

Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist. In this interview Tony reflects on his most recent novel, Women and Children.

His works include The White Girl (winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Prize), Ghost River (winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing), and Blood (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award).

Tony has appeared on The Garret several times before, including for one of his first recorded discussions of The White Girl and reflections about creativity during the Pandemic.

You can read the transcript of this interview here.

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