Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld is a British-Australian author and bookseller who won the Miles Franklin Award in 2014 for All the Birds, Singing. Born in London and raised partly in Australia, Wyld is co-owner of the independent bookshop Review in Peckham, London. Her fiction is characterised by its atmospheric intensity and its exploration of women's experience of violence and survival. All the Birds, Singing tells the story of Jake Whyte, a sheep farmer on a remote island, in alternating timelines that gradually reveal her traumatic past in Australia. The novel was also shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award. Her debut novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (2009) was also widely praised. Her third novel The Bass Rock (2020) won the Stella Prize in Australia and the Encore Award in the UK. Wyld is considered an important voice in both Australian and British literary fiction.