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History
The Reciter of the Year award is held at the Australian National Folk Festival in Canberra. This perpetual award is crafted in solid Ironbark wood.
The work can be read, but the reader must have written it. It is an award for writing, not performing.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Folk Festival was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and no award was given.
(https://www.stephenwhiteside.com.au/national-folk-festival-2018/)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2019
winner David Hallett -
Year: 2018
winner Leigh Brown -
Year: 1998