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Year: 2016
winner y Transit Kambah : Recent Work Press , 2016 11628969 2016 selected work poetry'This first book of poetry by Niloofar Fanaiyan is about transit as both a physical and conceptual suspension of time and space. It touches on the intersections of people, place, culture and history experienced by travellers: the feeling of being stuck on the periphery while life continues elsewhere; and the possibilities inherent in every journey.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2013
recipient Lesley Lebkowiczrecipient Irma Goldrecipient Robert Macklin -
Year: 2012
joint winner (Writing) y Coda for Shirley Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2011 Z1823976 2011 single work novel 'Coda for Shirley follows the problems that ensue after the 90 year-old protagonist Shirley leaves her money to her two grandsons as opposed to her pair of problematic daughters.' (Trove record)joint winner (Writing) 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.
joint winner (Writing) y The Seaglass Spiral Braidwood : Finlay Lloyd , 2012 Z1888770 2012 single work novel 'The Seaglass Spiral is a saga of two families brought together by the accidents of history and love. Based with fidelity on Alan Gould‘s memories, on letters and diaries, and on information from the public record, these glimpses of the past are brought alive and indeed, given an authenticity only possible through the imaginative reinvention of fiction. Each part of this continuity of stories, each life in the greater pattern, seems to speak back and forth across time and remind us that we are in no real sense alone.' (Publisher's website)joint winner (Writing) y Verity La Nigel Featherstone (editor), Michele Seminara (editor), Canberra : Verity La , 2010- Z1831829 2010 periodical (124 issues)Verity La is an on-line creative arts journal, publishing short fiction and poetry, cultural comment, photomedia, reviews and interviews.
Source: Verity La website, www.verityla.com (sighted 05/12/2012)
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Year: 2009
winner Jackie French For having in 17 years, published 132 books for adults and children, many of which have won or been shortlisted for awards and some adapted into award-winning plays.winner (Music) y The Voss Journey : Program Canberra : National Film and Sound Archive , 2009 Z1646283 2009 reference 'The Voss Journey' - four days of events, seminars, concerts and films inspired by Patrick White's novel, Voss (1957). Coordinated by the National Film and Sound Archive and presented in association with the Canberra International Music Festival, 'The Voss Journey' led participants on a journey through Canberra's cultural institutions, 14-17 May 2009. To Robyn Holmes and Vincent Plush for conceiving and directing 'The Voss Journey'.winner (Writing) y The Zealous Conservator : A Life of Charles Lane Poole Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2008 Z1568240 2008 single work biography'In an age of consciousness about conservation, this is a worthy biography of a man with a passionate drive for forests. Charles Lane Poole (1885-1970), Western Australia's first Conservator of Forests, is the flawed hero of this biography. Motivated by the ideals of forest conservation and its science, he followed their dictates in Western Australia and across the world. Poole was the first man to attempt the task of managing and preserving Australia's magnificent jarrah and karri forests at a time when they were being felled for railway sleepers. This fascinating biography follows his life from his birth in England in 1885 to Ireland, France, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Papua New Guinea, Canberra, where he established Australia's national forestry school, and Sydney, where he died in 1970.' (Publication summary)
winner (Writing) y Smoke and Mirrors : A Brad Chen Novel Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2008 Z1533116 2008 single work novel crime detective'Ace detective Brad Chen is lured back to work by the double murder of a Whitlam government minister and the editor of his political memoirs. The body count rises as Chen uncovers the deadly secret behind the most momentous events in Australian political history.'
Source: Ginninderra Press website, www.ginnindrrapress.com.au (Sighted 30/09/2008)
winner (Writing) Omar Musa For an excellent 12 months in which he won the Australian Poetry Slam at the Sydney Opera House, published a book, The Clocks, released his first album, The Massive EP, and recorded his second album.winner (Posthumous Award for Poetry) y La, La, La Parkville : Five Islands Press , 2009 Z1587859 2009 selected work poetryFrom losing so much in her war torn home, Osijek, to locating new senses of self and context in Canberra, 'yes, I remember everything' says the poet. Traversing from 'there' to 'here' to 'anywhere', la, la, la is a collection of dialogues between present and past. Lukic's is a disarming poetics that wonders and then meditates meaning as she moves between her shifting worlds. (Publisher's blurb)
For her book, 'La La, La', her first poetry collection in English, which has a strong sense of the poet's personality and her resilience under the threat of political violence and personal stresses. -
Year: 2003
Works About this Award
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Touch of Theatre at Awards as Stacey Takes Top Prize 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 November 2012; (p. 3) -
Theatre Awards: Tinpot Gongs or a Just Reward? 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 February 1995; (p. 19)