Georgia Blain was awarded the Prize for Fiction at the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards ceremony in Melbourne last night for Between a Wolf and a Dog. Blain was diagnosed with brain cancer in November 2015, but sadly lost her battle to the disease in December 2016. Her husband Andrew Taylor accepted the award on her behalf, saying, “It’s great that she won, but it’s sad and cruel that she can’t be here. She would have been honoured and thrilled.” The central character in Between a Wolf and a Dog was diagnosed with brain cancer, written before Blain’s own diagnosis. On accepting the award, Taylor called these parallels of art and life “a cruel twist”. Read Caroline Baum’s review, written early 2016: There is so much sadness around this book, both real and imagined: Georgia Blain was recently diagnosed with a fatal kind of brain tumour. It is surely no coincidence that this book is pervaded with death – although in the novel, the woman doing the dying is Hilary, an older woman, the matriarch of the family, mother to two estranged sisters April and Ester. And because Blain’s mother is none other than the much loved and respected journalist...
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