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Women I Know

{{Short description|2022 short story collection by Australian author Katerina Gibson}}

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| author = Katerina Gibson

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = Short story collection

| publisher = Simon and Schuster Australia

| release_date = 6 July 2022

| media_type = Print

| pages = 256 pp.

| isbn = 9781761106811

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| awards = 2023 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, winner

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Women I Know is a 2022 short story collection by the Australian author Katerina Gibson originally published by Simon and Schuster.{{cite web |title=Women I Know by Katerina Gibson |publisher=National Library of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8663469 |access-date=29 May 2025}}

It was the winner of the 2023 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.{{Cite news |last=Dow |first=Steve |date=2023-05-22 |title='Significantly shocking': debut author Debra Dank breaks records at NSW premier's literary awards |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/22/significantly-shocking-debut-author-debra-dank-breaks-records-at-nsw-premiers-literary-awards |access-date=2023-05-22 |issn=0261-3077}}

Contents

  • "Glitches in the algorithm"
  • "Meat alternatives for the motherland: a review"
  • "Orchestra of animals"
  • "Constellation in the left eye"
  • "A dog's world"
  • "Intermission I: all the stories I started but never finished because of the time-restrictive and distracting nature of the gig economy"
  • "A tight schedule"
  • "All noise through the fog will be forgiven"
  • "Women I know"
  • "The shape of"
  • "Preparation"
  • "Intermission II: on the mythology in the room (field notes)"
  • "Fertile soil"
  • "Times you let anger slip on your throat"
  • "Two hundred and one days of forests burning"
  • "When the river floods our house"
  • "As the nation still mourns"

Critical reception

In Meanjin Matilda Dixon-Smith states that "Gibson is a deft writer, with a curious bluntness to her prose that occasionally reveals delicious images", and that "In her more confident moments, and more ambitious stories, Gibson's writing is chewy and engaging".{{cite web|title="Examples of the Form" |publisher= Meanjin Online, 2022|url=https://meanjin.com.au/books/examples-of-the-form/|access-date= 29 May 2025}}

Writing in Australian Book Review Debra Adelaide noted that the stories in this collection have "an intellectual and imaginative power in their fearless probing into corners of the human world we didn't even think existed until now." She concluded that this "is an assured collection, audacious, dark, comic, and full of surprises."{{cite web|title="Much in Little : Three new short story collections" |publisher= Australian Book Review, December 2022|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2022/december-2022-no-449/984-december-2022-no-449/9939-debra-adelaide-reviews-three-new-short-story-collections|access-date= 29 May 2025}}

Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother.

Awards

See also

References

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{{New South Wales Premier's Prize for Fiction}}

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Category:Australian short story collections

Category:New South Wales Premier's Prize for Fiction Award-winning works