Career
Arnott's early writing appeared in literary publications Island Magazine , Kill Your Darlings and TheLifted Brow . In 2014, Arnott was awarded the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, and in 2015 won the Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship. [2]
Flames , Arnott's first novel, was released by Text Publishing in Australia in 2018. The novel was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2019 [3] and was nominated for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction. Following the release of Flames, Arnott was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist, a title awarded to select Australian authors under the age of 35 at the time their work was published. [4] Flames has been included as a text in Australian VCE (Victorian) school curriculum. [5]
The Rain Heron, Arnott's second novel, was released in 2020, and won The Age Book of the Year Award as well as being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. [6] Critics noted the novel continued Arnott's style of "risk-taking" and "daring" literary fiction, with a positive reception to its environmental messages. [7] [8]
The third novel from Arnott, Limberlost , was released in 2022. It became Arnott's second novel to win The Age Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the 2023 Miles Franklin Award, [9] and won the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. [10] It was also longlisted for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award. [11] Like Arnott's previous novels, Limberlost found critical success both in Australia and internationally, with positive reviews from noted critics and newspapers. [12] [13] [14]
His fourth novel, Dusk , was published in October 2024. [15] [16]
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