Sydney writer Stephanie Bishop's bittersweet novel of loss and longing, The Other Side of the World, has won the Readings Prize for new Australian fiction. 
The $4000 prize is open to first or second published works by writers and celebrates "exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature".
It is Bishop's second novel and was also shortlisted for the 2014 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award under a different title. Burial Rites author and Readings Prize judge Hannah Kent said Bishop's talent was "unquestionable".
"She has a poet's eye for the world," she said in a statement.
Following the publication of her first book, The Singing, when she was 21, Bishop was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's best young novelists.
Stephanie Bishop will appear in conversation with Burial Rites author and Readings Prize judge Hannah Kent at Readings Hawthorn on   November 11.