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  • Miles Franklin Award Announced
    Tim Winton has been awarded The Miles Franklin Award for a record-breaking fourth time, for his novel Breath.
  • Kibble and Dobbie Winners Announced
    This year's winner of the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award is Jacqueline Kent for An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin. The Dobbie winner is Claire Thomas for Fugitive Blue. The two awards recognise female writers who have published fiction or nonfiction classified as 'life writing'. The Kibble is awarded to an established writer while the Dobbie is for a first publication by a woman writer.

    Ditmar Winners
    The Ditmar Awards for Australian speculative fiction were announced in Adelaide last week at Conjecture, the annual Australian SF Convention. Winners included Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Best Novel) and Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann (Best Collected Work). Also honoured were Rosaleen Love, who received the A. Bertram Chandler Award for her contribution to Australian science fiction, and Sean Williams, this year's winner of the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence.
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