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The Australian Literature Resource
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Shaun Tan Wins Major Prize in Adelaide
Shaun Tan has won the overall $10,000 Premier's Award as well as the $15,000 Children's Literature Award in this year's Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. The judges declared that Tan's winning book, Tales from Outer Suburbia, presented 'a powerful stimulus to the imagination of readers of all ages'. (Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature website)
Other winners in the 2010 awards include Ransom by David Malouf (Fiction Award), Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane (Innovation Award), Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Rowe (Non-Fiction Award) and The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea (John Bray Poetry Award).
For a full list of national and South Australian winners, see the Arts SA website.
UPCOMING EVENTS/PRIZES/LAUNCHES
- Writing Across Cultures: Bringing Some of the World's Top Creative Writing Programs to Asia 09 Mar 2010
- Henry Kendall Poetry Award 2010 01 Nov 2009
- Queensland Premier's Drama Award 2010-2011 10 Dec 2009
- Guide to Sydney Beaches 09 Jul 2009
- Year of the Edit with Kim Wilkins 21 Feb 2010
- More events...
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
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- Railroad Man - Matt Bate
- Alice-Miranda at School - Jacqueline Harvey
- House of Hits - Jane Albert
- A Thousand Nights at the Ritz and Other Stories - Alan Collins
- More - 1665 works added in the last 14 days
ON THIS DAY, 10 MARCH...
- Archibald Forsyth born 1826, 1 works
- Philip Dearman Mennell born 1851, 4 works
- W. H. Willshire born 1852, 4 works
- W. A. Hamilton born 1863, 4 works
- Victor C. Hall born 1896, 4 works
- Enid Moodie Heddle born 1904, 22 works
- Rupert Lockwood born 1908, 2 works
- Ralph Harry born 1917, 3 works
- Charles Sriber born 1917, 3 works
- John Opie born 1921, 10 works
- Ian Turner born 1922, 40 works
- Wal Watkins born 1922, 15 works
- Geoffrey Serle born 1922, 23 works
- Elizabeth Morgan-Hoffmann born 1927, 1 works
- Celeste Walters born 1936, 52 works
- Marcus Clark born 1944, 1 works
- Mary P Haberle born 1946, 1 works
- Wenche Ommundsen born 1952, 52 works
- Bernie Monagle born 1957, 6 works
- Lucien Henry died 1896, 1 works
- William Lockhart Morton died 1898, 2 works
- Joseph Hadfield Grundy died 1934, 2 works
- Frank McGinley died 1937, 1 works
- G. B. Lancaster died 1945, 87 works
- 'Brian Vrepont' died 1955, 154 works
- Dorothy M. Catts died 1961, 7 works
- Emile Mercier died 1981, 28 works
- Selwyn Jepson died 1989, 1 works
- Beth Roberts died 2001, 14 works
- Don Norman died 2001, 37 works
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