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Nonfiction, Memoir
Paperback book with dust jacket
20/40 Publishing Prize
Winning Book 2024 – Fiction
Tremor compellingly weaves of the author’s personal experience with our broader societal context where people with disabilities, often far more challenging than her own, try to adapt to the implicit expectations and judgements that surround them. With empathy and flair, Voumard helps us understand that behind the convenient illusion of normality, individual lives chart atypical, often difficult, but ultimately inspiring paths.
"A highly engaging, short-form memoir... Although Tremor is deeply personal, it’s also very outward looking. Voumard uses her journalist’s fine observation skills to make connections and pepper her story with broader, time relevant, societal events... Voumard’s good humour, dignity and empathy for others never waver, which results in a moving and thought-provoking memoir."
— Compulsive Reader
Sonya Voumard is a nonfiction writer and former political journalist with The Age. She has written three other books, including The Media and the Massacre (2016), which was listed for a Nita B Kibble Literary Award and longlisted for a Stella Prize. Her essays and stories have been published in Griffith Review, Meanjin, Island and Neighbourhood. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS where she taught nonfiction writing for nine years.
Nonfiction, Memoir
Paperback book with dust jacket
20/40 Publishing Prize
Winning Book 2024 – Fiction
Tremor compellingly weaves of the author’s personal experience with our broader societal context where people with disabilities, often far more challenging than her own, try to adapt to the implicit expectations and judgements that surround them. With empathy and flair, Voumard helps us understand that behind the convenient illusion of normality, individual lives chart atypical, often difficult, but ultimately inspiring paths.
"A highly engaging, short-form memoir... Although Tremor is deeply personal, it’s also very outward looking. Voumard uses her journalist’s fine observation skills to make connections and pepper her story with broader, time relevant, societal events... Voumard’s good humour, dignity and empathy for others never waver, which results in a moving and thought-provoking memoir."
— Compulsive Reader
Sonya Voumard is a nonfiction writer and former political journalist with The Age. She has written three other books, including The Media and the Massacre (2016), which was listed for a Nita B Kibble Literary Award and longlisted for a Stella Prize. Her essays and stories have been published in Griffith Review, Meanjin, Island and Neighbourhood. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS where she taught nonfiction writing for nine years.