Annette Higgs Wins the 2026 Australian Fiction Prize for The Music Teacher
Higgs's unpublished novel, about a Polish refugee and her baby grand in 1978 Gilgandra, beat 300-plus entries for a $15,000 advance and a HarperCollins deal.
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Sydney-based novelist; winner of the 2026 Australian Fiction Prize for The Music Teacher and the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Official site: www.ahiggswriter.com
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