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Gregory Day

Gregory Day is an acclaimed novelist, poet, essayist and musician from the Eastern Otways region of southwest Victoria. He lives on Wadawurrung tabayl. 

Gregory is a winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and the Manly Artist Book Award. In 2019 Gregory’s novel, A Sand Archive, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Gregory’s other notable works include The Patron Saint of Eels, The Grand Hotel, Archipelago of Souls, The Bell of the World and Words Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place.

In 2020 Gregory received the prestigious Patrick White Award for his ongoing body of work, and in 2021 he was awarded the Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize.