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| Carrie Tiffany |
The inaugural winner of the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing has donated part of her prize money to her fellow finalists.
Melbourne author Carrie Tiffany won the prize for her second novel, Mateship with Birds, which follows the fortunes of a farmer and aged-care nurse in 1950s country Victoria.
The award, named after author Stella Miles Franklin, has been established to promote female writers.
Ms Tiffany donated $10,000 of her $50,000 prize to the other shortlisted authors.
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| Mateship With Birds |
She says they all deserve recognition.
"I read all of the books on the shortlist and a lot of them on the long list and I think they're fantastic and really a gift to our literary culture," she said.
"I think that the Stellas are an opportunity to do things a bit differently and to acknowledge the many, rather than the few.
"It is really difficult to choose a book from a shortlist and I wanted to spread attention across all of those books, rather than just mine."
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