Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz's debut novel, A Fraction of the Whole (2008), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the New South Wales Premier’s People’s Choice Award and was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists. The book was also shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, the Ned Kelly Awards, and the Australian Book Industry Awards, and longlisted for both the Dublin IMPAC Award and the Miles Franklin Award.

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His second novel, Quicksand, won the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and was shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His third novel, Here Goes Nothing (2022), was shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards and the Nib Awards, and longlisted for the 2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing.

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His fourth novel, A Rising of the Lights, was released in April 2026. Steve Toltz is based in Sydney, Australia.

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