the australian wins ippy silver medal in best regional fiction

Very excited to announce that Emma Smith-Stevens’s novel THE AUSTRALIAN has been awarded the IPPY Silver Medal in the Best Regional Fiction: Asia/Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa/Pacific Rim category! Congratulations to Emma for this incredible achievement.

In her humorous and emotionally resonant debut, Emma Smith-Stevens follows the exploits and evolution of a young man - known only as “the Australian” - over the course of a dozen years, from his time posing for tourist photos as Superman to his life in New York, chasing fame and fortune. Married to a woman he barely knows and struggling to forge a relationship with his son, the Australian travels between the U.S. and Melbourne, seeking to reconnect with his deceased parents through his father’s Australian Outdoor Geographic magazines and the Dreaming Tracks, sacred landmarks his mother longed to explore.
Thank you to the IPPY awards committee for recognizing this witty and captivating debut novel. Click here to get your copy of this award-winning book!