Praise for Fragile Creatures.

  • Winner of the 2025 Roderick Literary Award.

  • Shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award & Premier’s Book Award.

“A memoir written with the clear-eyed perspective and emotional complexity of a well-wrought novel.”

– Fiona Capp (The Age)

“This increasingly rare feeling of balance – I savour it…his words are like a draught in a gaping open chest.”

– Anna Krein (The Monthly)

“Fragile Creatures is a vital read.”

– Tony Birch (The Saturday Paper)

“Myint proves himself a voice to watch.”

– Melanie Kembry (The Sydney Morning Herald)

“Myint talks back to this elitism.”

– Astrid Edwards (The Conversation)

“Admirably clear-eyed and gentle.”

– Sian Cain (The Guardian)

“Deep conversations about performance politics, contemporary white feminism and the very nature of uncertainty itself.”

– Tim Loveday (Readings)

“More about raising questions than claiming definitive answers – just one reason I absolutely loved this exquisitely observed, candidly inhabited memoir.”

– Jo Case (InReview)