{{Short description|2014 novel by Australian author Rohan Wilson}} {{Use Australian English|date= March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book| | name = To Name Those Lost | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:To_Name_Those_Lost.jpg | caption = | author = Rohan Wilson | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Literary novel | publisher = Allen and Unwin | release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 297 pp. | isbn = 9781743318324 | preceded_by = The Roving Party | followed_by = | awards = 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winner | pub_date = 2014 }}
'''''To Name Those Lost''''' is a 2014 novel by the Australian author Rohan Wilson.<ref name="NLA">{{cite web |title=''To Name Those Lost'' by Rohan Wilson |publisher=National Library of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6574571 |access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>
The novel is a sequel to the author's 2011 novel ''The Roving Party''.
It was the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction.<ref name=VPP>{{cite web |date=2015 |title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015 |url=http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2015 |access-date=30 March 2015 |work=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208093306/http://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Synopsis== The novel is set in Tasmania in 1874, forty-five years after the events depicted in ''The Roving Party''. Thomas Toosey is now sixty-years-old and has decided to give up his old life and search for his motherless 12-year-old son in Launceston.
==Critical reception== In ''The Saturday Paper'' the reviewer JF described the novel as "There is a justice in Wilson's resolution of this dark and vigorous tale; though the ex-convicts don't escape the fatal shore, there is redemption for the next generation. Wilson's superbly taut novel keeps up its pace with spare punctuation and brutal dialogue in a vigorously drawn landscape feverish with the heat of a bushfire summer."<ref>{{cite web|title="Rohan Wilson: To Name Those Lost" |publisher= The Saturday Paper, 18 October 2014|url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2014/10/31/name-those-lost/14135508001118#.VEXVq_nLcnk|access-date= 30 March 2025}}</ref>
David Whish-Wilson, writing in ''Australian Book Review'' noted that "Wilson's characters are not ciphers standing in for [...] broader social forces and themes. All of them are fully humanised, their motives and hopes and frailties convincingly explored," and goes on conclude "There is a purity of vision in ''To Name Those Lost'''s consistency of tone and relentless drive to capture the dark poetry of dangerous times."<ref>{{cite web|title="To Name Those Lost by Rohan Wilson" |publisher= Australian Book Review, November 2014|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2014/november-2014-no-366/125-november-2014-no-366/2242-to-name-those-lost-by-rohan-wilson|access-date= 30 March 2025}}</ref>
==Publication history== After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen and Unwin<ref name=NLA /> it was reprinted in the USA in 2017 by Europa Editions.<ref>{{cite web|title= ''To Name Those Lost'' by Rohan Wilson|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/7588323|access-date= 29 March 2025}}</ref> ==Awards==
* 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winner<ref name=VPP /> * 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award, shortlisted<ref>{{cite web|title="Prime Minister's Literary Awards – Shortlistlist & winners: 2008–2023" |publisher= Creative Australia|url=https://creative.gov.au/advocacy-and-research/events/prime-ministers-literary-awards/|access-date= 30 March 2025}}</ref> * 2015 Voss Literary Prize, shortlisted<ref>{{cite web|title="Short List 2015" |publisher= Voss Literary Prize|url=https://vossliteraryprize.com/short-list-2015/|access-date= 19 December 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * 2014 in Australian literature
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction}}
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