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Notes
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This prize is awarded to Italian writers and internationally, for translated works.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2004
winner (Foreign Author) y
Fredy Neptune
Potts Point
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Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z66594
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
When German-Australian sailor Friedrich 'Fredy' Boettcher is shanghied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse during much of his life, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age. Told in blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life - as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever - is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution. (Libraries Australia)
Received for the 2004 English/Italian edition by the Italian publisher Giano
Works About this Award
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Murray's Prize Poem 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 December 2004; (p. 10)
