Her children’s books include Wide, Big World, Fashionista and When We Say Black Lives Matter. The Patchwork Bike, Maxine’s first picture book with Van T. Van Thanh Rudd (Candlewick) Zola’s Elephant by Randall De Sève, Illus. The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Illus. The Hate Race, a memoir about growing up black in Australia won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and Stella Prize. The School Library Journal Best Books of 2018 were announced todaySee who is on the list below: Picture Books. Maxine has published three poetry collections including Carrying the World, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2017 and was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. She was also named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists for 2015. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015 and the 2015 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writing at the 2015 ABIAs and the 2015 Stella Prize. Maxine’s short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent.
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