Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Coonardoo was a national prize winner in 1928, and one of the most widely taught works of Australian literature in the twentieth century. Few books have attracted such differing assessments: brilliantly authentic, completely fabricated, incisive realism, ‘a fairytale’. The author herself attracted controversy as ‘the red witch’, a sobriquet used as the title for Nathan Hobby’s recent...