AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2019
winner y Backseat Drivers Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2018 13457738 2018 single work prose'It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting satire on the intersection and byways of the past, the present and the future.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2013
winner (Fiction) y Through Splintered Walls : A Twelve Planets Collection Alisa Krasnostein (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2012 Z1873891 2012 selected work short story horror Through Splintered Walls comprises three short stories, ''Mountain,' 'Creek,' and 'Road' and the novella Sky. The stories are inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness, loneliness and perfection of the Australian landscape.
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Year: 2008
winner (Memoir) y Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2007 Z1382551 2007 single work biography'This remarkable story is the result of the discovery of hundreds of letters and photographs preserved by Rania MacPhillamy's family. The beautiful and accomplished daughter of a wealthy squatter, Rania left Australia in 1915 to work in a Cairo hospital treating the wounded from Gallipoli. Following the death of her soldier sweetheart she stayed on in Egypt and together with Alice Chisholm, set up a series of canteens for the men of the Light Horse. These canteens provided a restful and civilised haven, and the one contact with home for the men of the Egypt and Palestine campaigns.'
Source: Australian War Memorial.
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Year: 2006
winner (Memoir) y How To Succeed Without Really Winning Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2005 Z1208189 2005 single work autobiographywinner y Australian Speculative Fiction : A Genre Overview Murrumbateman : Aust Speculative Fiction , 2005 Z1225302 2005 reference biography review 'A readers guide to the Australian speculative fiction scene.' (Publisher's blurb) -
Year: 2004
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