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Part accidental memoir, part environmental history and part exploration of the performative voice on the page, The Book of Thistles is about the cultural and social life of this group of plants we call thistles. No ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  lle Janaczewska's work has been produced, broadcast, and published throughout Australia and overseas, and in 2014 she received a prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University for her body of work as a dramatist. Her plays have won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award, the Griffin Playwriting Award, and the Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition. She is the recipient of 7 AWGIE Awards (3 for radio non-fiction works and 4 for drama).  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