# Robbie Arnott

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.

## Career

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.
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 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. Flames has been included as a text in Australian VCE (Victorian) school curriculum.
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. Critics noted the novel continued Arnott's style of "risk-taking" and "daring" literary fiction, with a positive reception to its environmental messages.
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, and won the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. It was also longlisted for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award. Like Arnott's previous novels, Limberlost found critical success both in Australia and internationally, with positive reviews from noted critics and newspapers.
His fourth novel, Dusk, was published in October 2024.

## Personal life

Arnott was born in Launceston, and now lives in Hobart. He has one daughter.

## Awards

| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result |
| 2018 | Flames | Queensland Literary Awards | Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Flames | Readings Prize | New Australian Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | ALS Gold Medal | — | Longlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | Indie Book Awards | Debut Fiction | Longlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | Miles Franklin Award | — | Longlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | MUD Literary Prize | — | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | NSW Premier's Literary Award | UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | Not the Booker Prize | — | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Flames | Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Flames | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted |
| 2020 | Flames | Voss Literary Prize | — | Longlisted |
| 2021 | The Rain Heron | Australian Book Industry Awards | Small Publisher Adult Book | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | The Rain Heron | Miles Franklin Award | — | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | The Rain Heron | Voss Literary Prize | — | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | The Rain Heron | Tasmanian Literary Awards | Fiction | Longlisted |
| 2022 | The Rain Heron | William Saroyan International Prize for Writing | Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Limberlost | ARA Historical Novel Prize | Adult | Longlisted |
| 2023 | Limberlost | Australian Book Industry Awards | Literary Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Limberlost | Dylan Thomas Prize | — | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Limberlost | Indie Book Award | Fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Limberlost | Voss Literary Prize | — | Won |
| 2024 | Limberlost | Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History | — | Won |
| 2024 | Limberlost | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted |
| 2024 | Dusk | The Guardian's Top 25 Best Australian Books of 2024 | — | Won |