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The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award
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  • Published: 14 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620621
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00

The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

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Paperback
13 Apr 2021
Hardback
14 July 2026
EBook
2 July 2019
Audiobook
3 Sept 2019
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The powerful novel of truthtelling as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper, determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.
August Gondiwindi returns home for her grandfather’s burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Determined to make amends, she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river.
The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.
  • Published: 14 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620621
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00
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Awards & recognition

Miles Franklin Literary Award

Winner  •  2020  •  Miles Franklin Literary Award

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Winner  •  2020  •  Book of the Year

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Winner  •  2020  •  Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Winner  •  2020  •  People's Choice Award

Prime Minister's Literary Awards

Winner  •  2020  •  Fiction

The Voss Literary Prize

Winner  •  2020  •  The Voss Literary Prize

ALS Gold Medal Award

Longlisted  •  2020  •  ALS Gold Medal Award

Colin Roderick Award

Longlisted  •  2020  •  Colin Roderick Award

Queensland Literary Awards

Shortlisted  •  2020  •  The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

The Barbara Jefferis Award

Shortlisted  •  2020  •  The Barbara Jefferis Award

The Stella Prize

Shortlisted  •  2020  •  The Stella Prize

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

Shortlisted  •  2020  •  Fiction

Kate Challis RAKA Award

Winner  •  2021  •  Kate Challis RAKA Award

Dublin Literary Award

Longlisted  •  2021  •  Dublin Literary Award

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

Shortlisted  •  2022  •  Fiction