Michael Pedersen: Muckle Flugga

Grace Tame is a survivor-advocate, bestselling author, columnist, and ultra-marathon runner. Named 2021 Australian of the Year, she became a national voice for survivors of child sexual abuse after successfully overturning Tasmania’s gag laws, becoming the first female survivor in the state to speak out under her own name. She is the founder of the Grace Tame Foundation, a not-for-profit driving national initiatives to prevent, disrupt and respond to child sexual abuse.

Her bestselling memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, was shortlisted for three Australian Book Industry Awards and has cemented her place as a candid and powerful storyteller. Grace is also a regular columnist for The Monthly and The Saturday Paper, where she explores themes of justice, neurodiversity, and social reform.

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish author, the former Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate. He writes across fiction (Muckle Flugga), non-fiction (Boy Friends), and poetry (The Cat Prince).

Pedersen has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prizes and the Saltire National Book Awards. His work has earned a Sunday Times Critics Choice and been praised by: Stephen Fry, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace Tame, and Irvine Welsh, with his books translated into French, German, Spanish, Estonian, and beyond.