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\u2018The Inland Sea\u2019, the debut novel of Old Girl Madeline Watts (2007) has been nominated for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia\u2019s most prestigious literature prize.<\/p>\n\u2018The Inland Sea\u2019, the debut novel of Old Girl Madeline Watts (2007) has been nominated for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia\u2019s most prestigious literature prize.<\/p>\n
Madeleine\u2019s debut novel describes the unravelling of the novel\u2019s protagonist paralleled against the worsening climate crisis: \u201cAgainst a backdrop of familiar ecological catastrophe \u2013 fires, floods, and the terrifying spectre of the future of a warmed world \u2013 a young woman\u2019s life is unravelling in Sydney\u2019s inner west\u2026 This is a remarkable, slow-burning book from a writer of great talent. The Inland Sea is a superbly articulated window into the anxiety of living through young adulthood in an age of climate crisis.\u201d (Readings<\/a> review)<\/p>\n At MLC School, Madeleine demonstrated all-round academic excellence and was one of the top high achieving IB students for 2007. While in Year 10, Madeleine co-wrote and co-directed (and designed, produced, cast, lit and promoted) Working Title<\/em>, a play about a girl whose life slides between reality and the world of movies.\u00a0Excelsior<\/em>\u00a02005 described it as an \u201cimpressive original work\u201d with \u201cwonderful performances and script\u201d.<\/p>\n Madeleine went on to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University, NY. Her fiction has been published in\u00a0The White Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Lifted Brow<\/em>. Her novella,\u00a0Afraid of Waking It<\/em>\u00a0was awarded the\u00a02015 Griffith Review Novella Prize<\/a>, and her non-fiction has appeared in\u00a0The Believer<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>.\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/em>\u00a0is her first novel.<\/p>\n \u2013 Barbara Hoffman<\/em><\/strong> \u2018The Inland Sea\u2019, the debut novel of Old Girl Madeline Watts (2007) has been nominated for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia\u2019s most prestigious literature prize. Madeleine\u2019s debut novel describes the unravelling of the novel\u2019s protagonist paralleled against the worsening climate crisis: \u201cAgainst a backdrop of familiar ecological catastrophe \u2013 fires, floods, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2864","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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