AustLit
History
These awards were announced by the South Australian Premier at the opening of Writers Week at the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1984
winner y Readings from Ecclesiastes : Poems Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z201819 1982 selected work poetry -
Year: 1981
winner y Turtle Beach Ringwood : Penguin , 1981 Z34130 1981 single work novel'Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everything
'Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a personal disaster that she would like to forget.
'While on assignment Judith encounters Minou, the manipulative young French-Vietnamese wife of a high-ranking Australian diplomat. Minou is desperate to rescue her children from Saigon, who were left behind when she fled. Judith also begins a romance with the enigmatic Indian scholar Kanan. These new loyalties throw her headlong into dramatic personal and professional dilemmas. It is on the East Malaysian coast, where the giant turtles gather to lay their eggs, that the conflict reaches its tragic, brutal climax.' (Publication summary) -
Year: 1979
winner y 1915 : A Novel St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 Z80145 1979 single work novel historical fiction war literature -
Year: 1978
winner y Water Life St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1976 Z407323 1976 selected work poetrywinner Graham Jenkin
Works About this Award
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A Language that is Shaped by the Tablelands 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 1993; (p. C11)