AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1997
winner y Stepper Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 1997 Z825531 1997 single work novel'Tokyo, 1933. Tall, broodingly handsome, Victor Stepper is a consummate ladies' man, a brilliant journalist... and spy. As the world descends into war, Stepper collects information and sends it on to Moscow.
'Then he falls in love with Reiko, a Japanese woman. And Victor Stepper begins to fall apart...
'Stepper is a dazzling and haunting novel of espionage and erotic love.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 1996
winner y Billy Sunday Sydney : Picador , 1995 Z280334 1995 single work novel historical fiction -
Year: 1995
winner y Mad Meg Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1994 Z298835 1994 single work novel -
Year: 1994
winner y The Georges' Wife Ringwood : Viking , 1993 Z545267 1993 single work novel'Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. What has she learned from the well-bred peace of the Georges' household; the decadence and disorder of her friendship with Noel and Felicity: the fun and vulgarity shared with her 'widow' on the long voyage to Australia? Must we always repeat the past?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 1993
winner y Soundings St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z319311 1993 single work novel'In this haunting novel, Cameron's life changes when he retreats to a small community in the Westernport swampland. The landscape becomes his obsession and photographs reveal unsettling images from the past.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.