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Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Subcategory of Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships
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History

This award was previously known as the Writers' Emeritus Award. It was re-named in 2012 as the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award was not presented in 2014.

Notes

  • 'The $50,000 award is presented annually to recognise "the achievements of eminent writers who have made outstanding and lifelong contributions to Australian literature". In previous years, the award was called the Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award.'

    Source: Australia Council website, http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/
    Sighted: 22/11/2012

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Works About this Award

Awards Honour Australian Artists Annabel Ross , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 1 March 2016; (p. 31)
Keneally Collects His Sweetest Award of All Stephen Romei , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 March 2015; (p. 3)
'TOM Keneally has received the highest accolades in his 50-year writing career, including the Booker Prize and two Miles Franklins, but he judges the latest, an Australia Council lifetime achievement award, the sweetest of all.'
A Ragged Pair of Claws Stephen Romei , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 November 2013; (p. 19)
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