THE inaugural winner of a women's literary award has taken the rare step of donating a hefty chunk of her prize money to fellow authors.
Carrie Tiffany was announced on Tuesday night as the winner of the first Stella Prize, for her book Mateship with Birds.
At the Melbourne award night, she stunned and delighted those present by announcing she would donate $10,000 of her $50,000 prize money back to the remaining five shortlisted authors, giving each author $2000.
She said it felt fantastic to share her winnings.
"The prize is an opportunity to do something a bit differently and not necessarily follow the kind of standard and masculine model of people moving ahead, but also of people moving back," Tiffany told AAP.
"So it's a way we can celebrate the many, rather than celebrate the few."
Tiffany said she was astonished to win the prize, especially as her book was a "very small, short" one.
It may be short, but it seems the Stella Prize judges decided it was sweet.
Set in country Victoria in the 1950s, Mateship with Birds is about the fortunes of a deserted farmer and a single mother.
Judges said it used detailed observations about people, animals and birds to tell an original, tender, frank and funny version of an age-old love story.
Tiffany, a journalist for farming publications, said she spent a lot of time watching people who lived in the bush and thinking about what their lives might be like.
"I think there's a couple of things there. One is the sense of isolation and loneliness of people who work on their own in the landscape all of the time," she said.
"But also a sense of succour that you can get from observation and really understanding the world that surrounds you."
Mateship with Birds, which took about seven years to write, is Tiffany's second novel and she is now working on another.
Her debut novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, also won two awards.
The 2013 Stella Prize was for the best book published in 2012 by an Australian woman.
Open to fiction and non-fiction entries, it received almost 200 entries.
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