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Authors exit publisher after Indigenous picture book pulped for anti-Semitism

Several authors, including Stella Prize winner Evelyn Araluen, severed ties with University of Queensland Press after the publisher canceled an Indigenous picture book over its illustrator's past statements on anti-Semitism. All 5,000 printed copies of 'Bila, a river cycle' are set to be pulped. Araluen criticized the decision as 'shameful' and damaging to Indigenous storytelling.

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