AustLit
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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1993
winner y The Anzacs West Melbourne : Nelson , 1978 Z1065868 1978 single work non-fiction'Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape or burial. And when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about the First World War. Soldiers sought her out to tell her why they went, what they saw, and how they felt about that great holocaust. Their simple accounts are more vivid than any novel; the years have not dimmed their memories of lost comrades and the horrors of war. These are the extraordinary experiences of ordinary men - and they strike to the heart. The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Year: 1990
inaugural winner y My Place Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z384564 1987 single work autobiography (taught in 30 units)'In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.' Source: Publisher's blurb.
Works About this Award
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Top Award to Explorer of a Nation's Psyche 1993 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 January 1993; (p. 11) -
Literary Finalists Named 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 December 1992; (p. 6) -
Council Calls for Tax-Free Books 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 December 1992; (p. 22) -
Forward : Telecom Answers Writer's Call 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 3-4 February 1990; (p. 8) -
Foreword : Reading, Writing at Battery Point 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 25-26 November 1989; (p. 9)