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Arnott, Robbie (1989-)

Robbie Arnott’s acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Rain Heron (2020), won the Age Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award. He lives in Hobart.

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Arnott's 2022 novel Limberlost has been added to the English Literature Prescribed Text List for 2026. Limberlost is a coming-of-age (or bildungsroman) story that acts as a love letter to Northern Tasmania and the people who make it special. The story is set during the Second World War and follows the life of Ned West as he grows into adulthood, through to eventual old age.

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