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Robbie Arnott (born 1989) is an Australian author known for his novels Flames, The Rain Heron and Limberlost, all of which were nominated for prestigious Australian literary awards.^[1]

Arnott's early writing appeared in literary publications Island Magazine, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow. In 2014, Arnott was awarded the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, and in 2015 won the Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship.^[2]

Flames, Arnott's first novel, was released by Text Publishing in Australia in 2018. The novel was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2019^[3] and was nominated for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for fiction. Following the release of Flames, Arnott was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist, a title awarded to select Australian authors under the age of 35 at the time their work was published.^[4] Flames has been included as a text in Australian VCE (Victorian) school curriculum.^[5]

The Rain Heron, Arnott's second novel, was released in 2020, and won The Age Book of the Year Award as well as being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.^[6] Critics noted the novel continued Arnott's style of "risk-taking" and "daring" literary fiction, with a positive reception to its environmental messages.^[7][8]

The third novel from Arnott, Limberlost, was released in 2022. It became Arnott's second novel to win The Age Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the 2023 Miles Franklin Award,^[9] and won the 2023 Voss Literary Prize.^[10] It was also longlisted for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award.^[11] Like Arnott's previous novels, Limberlost found critical success both in Australia and internationally, with positive reviews from noted critics and newspapers.^[12][13][14]

His fourth novel, Dusk, got published in October 2024.^[15][16]

Arnott was born in Launceston, and now lives in Hobart. He has one daughter.^[17]

• —— (2018). Flames. Text Publishing. ISBN 9781925603521.
• —— (2020). The Rain Heron. Text Publishing. ISBN 9781922268778.
• —— (2022). Limberlost. Text Publishing. ISBN 9781922458766.
• —— (2024). Dusk. Pan Macmillan (published 8 October 2024). ISBN 9781761560941.

• —— (2019). The Hall Chimp. Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781838950545.

• Mills, Jennifer (October 2022). "A distant leviathan : Robbie Arnott's realist new novel". Australian Book Review. 447: 38.