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The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award by Tara June Winch

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The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

by Tara June Winch

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Narrator Tony Briggs

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Length 9 hours 50 minutes

Language English

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Experience the powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language and identity in Tara June Winch's The Yield, narrated by Tony Briggs.

A Legacy of Words
The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri, yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha.
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.

A Return to Roots
August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends, she endeavours to save their land - a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river.

A Celebration of Endurance
Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling, and identity.

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'Take courage when you read this book. You'll need it. Winch asks big questions of this country. Is the answer within us?' Bruce Pascoe

'Mesmerising and important.' Melissa Lucashenko

'A lyrical, courageous storyteller, Winch redefines Australia in this generational tale of reclamation and hope.' The Times

'Intensely moving, gripping, brutal and yet so full of generosity. I learned so much about the lyrical Wiradjuri language. Brilliant.' Annabel Crabb

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Tara June Winch (Author)
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. A 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016. In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Prot�g� Arts Initiative. Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage was published in 2016. After the Carnage was longlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction, shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection. She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary, Carriberrie, which screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and toured internationally. The Yield won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the People's Choice Award and Book of the Year at the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Tony Briggs (Reader)
Tony Briggs is a Yorta Yorta / Wurundjeri creative who has worked in theatre, film and television as an actor and writer for many years.

Tony's stage credits include Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company), Black is the New White (Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre), Which Way Home (Belvoir Theatre Company), Stolen (Ilbijerri Theatre Company), The Memory of Water, The Female of the Species (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Jandamarra, Corrugation Road (Black Swan Theatre), Yanagai! Yanagai!, Fever (Melbourne Workers Theatre) and Who's Afraid of the Working Class? (Melbourne Workers Theatre and Belvoir Theatre Company).

His television work includes Rake (Essential Media); Cleverman (Goalpost Pictures); Seven Types of Ambiguity, Nowhere Boys, The Slap (Matchbox Pictures) and Wentworth (Fremantle Media Australia). Film credits include Healing (dir: Craig Monahan); The Sapphires, The Djarn Djarns (dir: Wayne Blair) and Bran Nue Dae (dir: Rachael Perkins).

For his hit stage show The Sapphires, Tony received 2 Helpmann Awards for Best Play and Best New Australian Work, a Deadly Lifetime Achievement Award and 2 AWGIE Awards for Most Outstanding Script. The film adaptation won many top accolades at the 2013 AACTA awards, including Best Film and Best Feature Film Adaptation.