Ilka Tampke
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Ilka Tampke is an award-winning author, academic and teacher. Her first two novels explore the druidic culture of Ancient Britain and its disruption by Roman colonisation. Skin was published in eight countries and nominated for the Voss Literary Prize and the Aurealis Awards in 2015. Songwoman was published in five countries and won the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award in 2019. Her third novel, set in contemporary Australia, will be published in 2026. Ilka lives between Darwin and the Macedon Ranges of Victoria.
How to Love the World to be released in June 2026.
Ilka’s third novel, How to Love the World, will be published by Summit Books in 2026.
“‘Vivid world-building, a seamless blend of research and imagination, and the heightened lexicon of fantasy lend a beguiling lustre to this Iron Age saga.’.”
— The Age