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History
Young Writers Award was run in association with National Youth Week. National Youth Week was co-ordinated by the Youth Bureau of the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services in collaboration with the departments responsible for youth affairs in all states and territories. (Courier-Mail 20 April 2002)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2001
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Rush
Sydney
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Bantam Books
,
2002
Z955085
2002
single work
novel
crime
'For a man intent on escaping his past, a chance meeting in Vietnam with an American journalist looks like the perfect way out, but it is just the beginning of an adrenaline and testosterone-fuelled plunge into a world of danger and desperate men.
Dragged into a seedy undergound where Russian roulette is an everyday rush and life is very, very cheap, he finds himself taking on the journalist's identity - and his girlfriend. But soon his new ID gets him into more trouble than it's worth. The boundaries between reality and hallucination blur and the body count mounts as he's forced to flee to Cambodia and, eventually, to Australia.' - back cover
