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Dirk Hartog Literary Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

This bicentennial award of $6500 was presented by the Netherland's Prince Claus during a visit to Adelaide. The prize was a gift of the Netherlands Government.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1988

winner (Amsterdam) y separately published work icon Vreemdeling in de Spiegel : Autobiografie van een Nederlandse Emigrante Lolo Houbein , ( trans. Frans Bruning )expression Amsterdam : Balans , 1988 Z828368 1988 single work autobiography Lolo Houbein left the Holland of her war-troubled childhood to live in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Her spiritual journeying has been guided by intuition as she searches for an ancestry so scattered and elusive that fact and imagination mingle in the telling. Belief in the relatedness of all human beings has led to her meeting people of many races, including the Dalai Lama.
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