Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser has won the 2025 Stella Prize, worth $60,000.
The judges of the 2025 Stella Prize said of the winner, ‘In her refusal to write a novel that reads like a novel, de Kretser instead gifts her reader a sharp examination of the complex pleasures and costs of living.
Read our book review of Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka. She lives in Warrane/Sydney. An honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney, she has won several awards for her fiction. Theory & Practice is her seventh novel.
Stella’s purpose is to promote books by Australian women writers in all their diversity, support greater participation in the world of literature, and create a more equitable and vibrant national culture.
