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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2004
winner y
Never Say Die
Pymble
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HarperSports
,
2003
Z1084024
2003
single work
autobiography
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Year: 2002
winner y
Gould's Book of Fish : A Novel in Twelve Fish
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
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2001
Z912793
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened'. (Source: Trove)
