2010 SA Premier's & Children's Literature Award |
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Author: Shaun Tan
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street? Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night? Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and T ... |
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Non-fiction Award |
Stella Miles Franklin
A Biography
Author: Jill Roe
This biography is an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure. This account follows her story ... |
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Fiction Award |
Ransom
Author: David Malouf
In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son, Hector, being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. |
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John Bray Poetry Award |
Barley Patch
Author: Gerald Murnane
Barley Patch is Gerald Murnane's first published book of fiction since 1995. It is a meditation on fiction and Murnane's own dedication to writing, and an examination of the relation between memory, image and lived exper ... |
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2008 Fiction Award |
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
Author: Roger McDonald
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, no one had ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. ... |
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Non Fiction Award |
Sunrise West
Author: Jacob G. Rosenberg
Navigating between the two worlds of wartime experiences in Europe and new life in Australia, this moving memoir of a Holocaust survivor is imbued with an element of fiction. This deeply personal narrative travels from d ... |
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7-10 Days
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Children's Literature Award |
Don't Call Me Ishmael!
Author: Michael Bauer
A school story with recognisable characters and situations, in which the geeks outsmart the bullies and good triumphs. Ages 10+. Shortlisted for CBCA Book of the Year Award 2007. |
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Award for Innovation |
Someone Else
Author: John Hughes
John Hughes enters deep into the world of his imagination, giving voice to the twenty-one writers and artists who have left their traces there. In story-like essays written in the style of his heroes, the effect is like ... |
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John Bray Poetry Award |
Urban Myths
210 Poems
Author: John Tranter
John Tranter's poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art, so that we arrive, unexpectedly at the deepest human mysteries. |
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