Maxine Beneba Clarke, Alice Pung, Ellen Van Neervan, Omar Musa, Michael Mohammed Ahmad are 2015 Best Young Australian Novelists

By Linda Morris
Updated May 28 2015 - 10:13am, first published May 22 2015 - 5:30pm
Maxine Beneba Clarke  Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Maxine Beneba Clarke Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
 Photo: Steven Siewert
Michael Mohammed Ahmad Photo: Steven Siewert
Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Omar Musa

 Photo: Cole Bennetts
Omar Musa Photo: Cole Bennetts
Maxine Beneba Clarke  Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Maxine Beneba Clarke Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Maxine Beneba Clarke  Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Maxine Beneba Clarke Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
 Photo: Steven Siewert
Michael Mohammed Ahmad Photo: Steven Siewert
Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Omar Musa

 Photo: Cole Bennetts
Omar Musa Photo: Cole Bennetts
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven
Maxine Beneba Clarke  Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Maxine Beneba Clarke Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Foreign Soil, by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Here Come the Dogs, by Omar Musa.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Heat and Light, by Ellen Van Neerven.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Laurinda, by Alice Pung.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
 Photo: Steven Siewert
Michael Mohammed Ahmad Photo: Steven Siewert
Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Omar Musa

 Photo: Cole Bennetts
Omar Musa Photo: Cole Bennetts
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven

The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists of 2015 are, without exception, outsiders writing about what it is to be outsiders. Their stories are peopled by loners, the disenfranchised, the broken and the criminal. Barely a peep of white picket fence Australia between them.

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