Delia Falconer has won the Waverly Council’s 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her book Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss.

Falconer was awarded a $20,0000 prize and her book was selected from six other shortlisted books. Signs and Wonders looks at how it feels to live during a period of significant ecological change.

Falconer’s first book The Service of Clouds was shortlisted for various awards, including the Miles Franklin and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

Falconer has previously won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her book Sydney. She is the second author in the Awards 21-history to win twice.

For further information about the award visit the Waverly Council website here.