Peter Polites

SHORTLISTED FOR NSW PREMIERS LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2018 'Tough and compelling' - Christos Tsiolkas He touched my face. When his hand went along my bruised top lip and my almost broken nose, I winced from the pain. His fist went into a deep denim pocket, pulled out a Syrinapx bottle, twisted the cap off and handed me two...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION ‘A stand out amongst contemporary Australian literary fiction for its stylistic and structural ambition, God Forgets About the Poor is the novel Polites has been climbing to. It is moving, poetic, powerful - at once a folktale and a...