Green Dot is Australian author Madeleine Gray's debut novel, published in 2023. It won the Matt Richell Award for New Writer at the ABIA Awards in 2024, and was shortlisted for several other awards.
Book Green Dot was published by Allen & Unwin in 2023, becoming very popular as well as attracting critical acclaim.
The protagonist of the novel is a queer, intelligent, educated 24-year-old woman, Hera Stephen, who begins to fall into madness after beginning a relationship with an older, married colleague. Green Dot has been labelled as "sad girl fiction".
Author Madeleine Gray is an Australian novelist, who has worked at a bookstore.
She graduated from the University of Sydney and University of Oxford, and was undertaking a PhD in literary theory at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
Awards
Year Award Category Result Ref. 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer Australian General Fiction Book of the Year APA Book Design Awards Designed Commercial Fiction Cover (designed by Alissa Dinallo) Booksellers Choice Award Book People Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year British Book Awards Debut Indie Book Awards Debut Fiction 2025Russell Prize for Humour Writing— won
See also 2023 in Australian literature
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