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Cory Taylor was the award-winning author of "Me and Mr. Booker," "My Beautiful Enemy," and "Dying: A Memoir".
Following the strength of the longlist, it is a more extended shortlist than in previous years, with six titles: Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Fiona McFarlane's The Night Guest, Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy, Tim Winton's Eyrie, Alexis Wright's The Swan Book and Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing.
Me and Mr Booker went on to win the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Pacific Region), and her second novel My Beautiful Enemy (2013) – a heartsplitting queer love story set in a Japanese internment camp in country Victoria – was nominated for the Miles Franklin.
Fiona McFarlane's The Night Guest, Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy and Alexis Wright's The Swan Book were all shortlisted in an announcement on Thursday at the State Library of New South Wales, and the authors appeared in a panel discussion to talk about their work.
There are works which grapple with wartime, and the Japanese and Australian experience in the second world war: Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy, a love story that spans a generation, set in a Japanese internment camp in regional Victoria; and Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, set in a Japanese PoW camp on the Thai-Burma railway that centres on death, love and betrayal.
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It's a beautiful story about former enemies becoming friends, about the courage of convictions, about repentance and finding a new way of life.
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