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First Year: 2024 The Australian/Vogel's Award Winner

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Kristina Ross

First Year

2024 The Australian/Vogel's Award Winner

Kristina Ross

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Allen & Unwin
18 June 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

The winner of the 2024 The Australian/Vogel's Award for Young Writers.

'Captures the high stakes, the intense competition, the vulnerability of the characters very well.' Caroline Overington, The Australian

At seventeen, Maeve is naively single-minded about pursuing a life in the theatre. After a rigorous audition process, she secures a position at one of the most competitive drama schools in the country. Leaving behind the security of her childhood home in Queensland, Maeve moves to Melbourne and devotes herself to the course.

The expectations of the faculty are made clear from the outset: to avoid failure, the process must be adhered to without question and, as the youngest student at the school, Maeve knows she must gain life experience in order to inhabit her roles. With the encouragement of her new classmates, Maeve explores the darker pockets of her personality, disastrously blurring the line between the characters she must play and herself.

For readers of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, First Year is a deeply intelligent and insightful exploration of creativity and performance, marking the entry of an audacious new literary talent.

By: Kristina Ross
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 377g
ISBN: 9781761470653
ISBN 10: 1761470655
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 18 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristina Ross is a writer and producer for the stage and screen. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and a recipient of the Queensland Theatre's Young Playwrights Award, she has had the pleasure of working as an actor for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, the Artisan Collective and the ABC. Kristina currently lives on the Gold Coast with her husband and two children.

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