Locust Girl by Merlinda Bobis wins Christina Stead prize for fiction

By Susan Wyndham
Updated May 25 2016 - 10:23am, first published May 19 2016 - 2:35pm
Author Merlinda Bobis, winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
 Photo: Evana Ho
Author Merlinda Bobis, winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Photo: Evana Ho

It is no surprise that a dystopian novel about climate change has won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards - there were three among the six shortlisted books.

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