AustLit
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This category commemorates those writers who have most contributed to KOALA over the years.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
recipient Jacqueline Harvey -
Year: 2020
recipient Oliver Phommavanh -
Year: 2018
recipient Belinda Murrell -
Year: 2017
recipient Deborah Abela -
Year: 2014
Works About this Award
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Movi(e)ng a Legend: The Iconic Significance of Ned Kelly 2006 single work criticism essay
— Appears in: Seva-Bharati Journal of English Studies , no. 2 2006; (p. 58-65) -
y Legends of the Outback Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2002 Z1205928 2002 selected work biography
'Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics…
'Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960’s she raised cattle and kids on the world’s most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert.
'Here she writes about the heroes, visionaries and eccentrics of Australia’s vast outback. Her thirty-two characters include the greatest drover and Gulf trekker of them all, Nat Buchanan: prince of poddy-dodgers Harry Redford; the cattle king Sidney Kidman; outback surveyor supreme and all-round good bloke Len Beadell; Aboriginal warrior Jandamarra; Mat Wilson at the N.T. Depot store; gun shearer Jackie Howe; drover Edna Zigenbine on the Murranji Track; explorer and goldmine Christy Palmerston in the heartland of Cape York Peninsula; eccentrics such as the Gulf Hero and the Barkly Hermit; and drovers who were also painters and poets of repute.' (Publication summary)
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y Legends of the Mountains Katoomba : Joseph Bennett and Son , 1940 Z1923380 1940 single work prose myth/legend
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y Waratah Legends Katoomba : Joseph Bennett and Son , 1900 Z1923388 1900 single work prose myth/legend