Lee Lai: First Graphic Novel Creator to Win Stella Prize
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Lee Lai’s graphic novel Cannon has become the first graphic novel to win the Stella Prize given to women and nonbinary Australian authors. The prize amount is $60,000. She is also the first trans person to win the award.
Here’s how Lee describes her book (per ABC):
“[Cannon] is a story about small-scale human follies and the excruciating process of learning and growing through them,” she says.
“It’s also a book about love and about rage and those are two emotions that have fuelled my efforts as an artist and as an organiser for the past many years, and if I must think about the fact that this book is landing for somebody else then my big hope is that it acts as a catharsis and an encouragement to experience some real love or some real anger and that one might use that for something worthwhile.”
Cannon is up for a Doug Wright Award Best Book and was a finalist in the LA Times Book Prizes earlier this year.
Her book was published last fall by Drawn & Quarterly.
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