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Michael Winkler is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction.

Winkler's novel Grimmish was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award. It was the first self-published novel ever longlisted or shortlisted for the prize. Grimmish was subsequently published by Puncher & Wattman (Australia), Peninsula Press (UK), Coach House Books (North America) and Mutatis Mutandis (Spanish translation, Spain).

His essay 'The Great Red Whale' won the Calibre Prize.

Winkler has been a judge of The Age Book of the Year and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

Bibliography

Fahfangoolah The Despised And Indispensable Welcome To Woop Woop (2016) ISBN 9780994579805

Grungewick: Gritty and Gruesome News Stories of Early Brunswick (2016) ISBN 9780994579812

Grimmish (2021) ISBN 9781922571274