A TASMANIAN author’s novel about the state’s brutal past has won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for young writers.
Six years in the making, Rohan Wilson’s book The Roving Party traces the misdeeds of John Batman and a band of convicts and trackers he led in 1829.
Wilson, 34, of Launceston, received his $30,000 prize for the best unpublished manuscript from acclaimed author Tim Winton at a ceremony in Sydney last night.
He said he started the book while unemployed and homesick in Japan and drew on his memories of the landscape he grew up in.
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