Jessica Au is an Australian editor and bookseller, and author of the novels Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow. Au won the inaugural Novel Prize in 2022. She is based in Melbourne.
Au won the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and both the 2023 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature and Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction for Cold Enough for Snow.
Awards and honours YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef.2020Cold Enough for Snow Novel Prize—2022The Age Book of the Year Award FictionQueensland Literary AwardFictionReadings PrizeFiction2023Indie Book AwardsFictionInternational Dublin Literary Award—Miles Franklin Award—Prime Minister's Literary AwardsFictionVictorian Premier's Literary AwardsVictorian Premier's Prize for FictionVictorian Premier's Literary AwardsVictorian Prize for Literature
Publications
Cargo (2011) Cold Enough for Snow (2022)
References
External links
New Directions author profile