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After the finalists are announced for the Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award, the public are invited to vote for the Civic Choice Award on the Melbourne Prize Trust website as well as during an exhibition of the finalists in Melbourne, Victoria.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner Maxine Beneba Clarke -
Year: 2012
winner y
Blood
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2011
Z1821176
2011
single work
novel
(taught in 5 units)
'Jesse has sworn to protect his sister, Rachel, no matter what. It's a promise that cannot be broken. A promise made in blood. But, when it comes down to life or death, how can he find the courage to keep it? Set on the back roads of Australia, Blood is a boy's odyssey through a broken-down adult world.
'Many of us have known for a long time what a wonderful storyteller Tony Birch is. Blood confirms it - and how. The terrain is hard, unflinching but also imbued with a deeply resonant humanism. For at its heart there is Jesse, the young narrator whose voice is urgent and compelling, sweet and direct.' Christos Tsiolkas (Source: Publisher website) -
Year: 2009
winner y
The Good Daughter : A Novel
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2009
Z1601539
2009
single work
novel
young adult
Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with: her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention her arrogant cousin Adnan. They all want to marry her off, have her become a strict Muslim and speak Bosnian. And Sabiha's friends are not always friendly. She gets bullied by girlfriends and is anxious about boyfriends, when she just wants to fit in. But two boys, Brian and Jesse, become the allies of this fierce and funny girl.
Works About this Award
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Bordering on the Brink 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 November 2009; (p. 32)
