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Jen Webb

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Jen Webb is director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra.

Articles by Jen

Grief, racism and uncertain futures: the 2019 Miles Franklin shortlist

The novels in this year’s Miles Franklin Award shortlist are profoundly empathetic and attuned to contemporary Australia, writes Jen Webb.

Grief, loss and a glimmer of hope: the 2017 Miles Franklin winner

Josephine Wilson’s 2017 Miles Franklin award-winning novel Extinctions nails the key anxieties and preoccupations of today’s society, writes Jen Webb.

Alec Patric with a large image of the cover of his book alongside those of previous Mile Franklin Literary Award winners. Photo: supplied

Miles Franklin winner: a grim story with moments of light

AS Patric’s 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel ‘Black Rock White City’ could be read as an analogy for the contemporary tragedy that is the forced mass movement of people across the globe, writes Jen Webb.