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Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

See The Colin Roderick Award

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1993

winner y separately published work icon A Fence around the Cuckoo Ruth Park , Ringwood : Viking , 1992 Z501992 1992 single work autobiography

'This first volume of Ruth Park’s autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a reluctant correspondence with a young Australian writer.

'In 1942, Park moved to Sydney and married that writer, D’Arcy Niland. There she would write The Harp in the South, the first of her classic Australian novels. A Fence Around the Cuckoo is the story of one of Australia’s best storytellers and how she learnt her craft.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Text ed.)

Year: 1991

winner y separately published work icon Struggle of Memory Joan Marie Dugdale , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z561524 1991 single work novel

Year: 1988

winner y separately published work icon Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z359704 1988 single work novel (taught in 7 units)

'Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...'

(Source: Publisher's website)

Year: 1987

winner y separately published work icon Home Is the Sailor, and, The Best of Intentions Nancy Phelan , Melbourne : Hyland House , 1987 Z391996 1987 selected work novel

Year: 1984

winner y separately published work icon The Man Who Stayed Below Alan Gould , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 Z374602 1984 single work novel travel
VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (16)

Works About this Award

Foreword [16-17 June 1990] 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 16-17 June 1990; (p. 6)
y separately published work icon The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies : A Note on the First Ten Years 1966-1976 Colin Roderick , Townsville : Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland , 1989 Z479854 1989 single work criticism
Shelf Life Jane Sullivan , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 10 June 1989; (p. 8)
Literary Award to Australian Poet 1975 single work biography
— Appears in: James Cook University of North Queensland Newsletter , 9 June vol. 6 no. 4 1975; (p. 2)
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