Tim Winton — Juice Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2026
Australian novelist Tim Winton has been longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize for his novel Juice. The £10,000 prize, founded by Rose Goddard, Imran Khan and Leo Barasi and supported by Climate Spring, celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis. The shortlist will be announced on 18 March, with the winner revealed at the Hay Festival on 30 May.
Winton is one of Australia's pre-eminent writers, with thirty published books translated into twenty-nine languages. He has won the Miles Franklin Award a record four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2023 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to literature, conservation and environmental advocacy.
Juice is an epic post-apocalyptic thriller set in a dystopian future shaped by climate catastrophe. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they seek refuge in an abandoned mine site — but they're not alone. What unfolds is a story of survival, resistance and reckoning with the forces that brought the world to its knees.
"This is an utterly propulsive and unputdownable novel, set in a dystopia in which we recognise our world of climate damage. A powerful book in which a quietly contained rage burns off the page." — Arifa Akbar, Climate Fiction Prize Chair of Judges
"A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future. Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart." — Emma Donoghue
Also longlisted are two further Australian/Antipodean authors: Robbie Arnott for Dusk and Grace Chan for Every Version of You. The full longlist of twelve novels also includes works by Sarah Hall, Susanna Kwan, Jon McGoran, Helen Phillips, Madeleine Thien and An Yu. Judges are Arifa Akbar, Kit de Waal, Jessie Greengrass, Friederike Otto and Simon Savidge.