Katherine Brabon

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD ‘an illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain’ —Publishers Weekly Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book. —Claire Thomas, author of The Performance...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW LITERARY AWARDS - CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘a gloriously distinctive writer: brava, brava!’— Michelle de Kretser, Miles Franklin award-winning author of The Life to Come and Theory & Practice ‘Cure lures you in with mesmeric prose then startles with profound insights on pain, faith, motherhood and, above all, love.’—Diana Reid, bestselling author of Love &...

From the Stella Prize–shortlisted author of The Shut-ins and Body Friend comes a daring new work of auto-fiction that challenges the very language of transformation. Partum tracks two years in a woman’s life as she negotiates a new and demanding reality. As she struggles to produce an artwork that can represent the inexpressible, she finds herself caught between a fading...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD ‘An illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain.’ – Publishers Weekly Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. "I felt everything reading this book." — Claire Thomas, author of...