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Vance Palmer Prize For Fiction
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The Palmer Prize was valued at 30,000 in 2010. The award was named after Vance Palmer, a leading literary critic. Palmer wrote reviews and presented a program called ''Current Books Worth Reading'' on ABC Radio. He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including ''National Portraits'' (1940) ''A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work'', (1941) ''Frank Wilmot'' (1942), ''Old Australian bush ballads'' (co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving 125,000 and category winners 25,000 each. The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, Premier of Victoria, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004, the total prize money was 180,000. In 2011, stewardship was taken over by the Wheeler Centre. Winners 2011–present Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book ''The Yield''. Biography Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia in 1983. Her father is from the Wiradjuri nation in western New South Wales, and she grew up in the coastal area of Woonona within the Wollongong region. She often explores the two geographical places in her fiction. She is based in Australia and France. Her first novel, ''Swallow the Air'' (2006), won several Australian literary awards. The judges for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "As with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion". In 2008 the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative supported her mentorsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bradley (Australian Writer)
James Bradley (born 1967) is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer. Bradley's novels, which have been published internationally, explore both past and future. His books include seven novels and a book of poetry. He has also edited two anthologies, ''Blur'', a collection of writing by young Australian writers, and ''The Penguin Book of the Ocean''. Bradley also writes as a critic, with reviews and articles appearing regularly in Australian newspapers and magazines, and blogs at City of Tongues. In 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Criticism and was named Australian Critic of the Year. He lives in Sydney with his partner, the novelist Mardi McConnochie. Bibliography Bradley's novels explore both past and future. The first, '' Wrack'' explores questions about the nature of history and the imaginary origins of Australia, drawing together the story of the semi-mythical " Mahogany Ship", a Portug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Salom
Philip Salom (born 8 August 1950) is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 14 collections of poetry and four novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences from title to title. His poetry has won awards in Australia and the UK. His novel ''Waiting'' was shortlisted for Australia's prestigious 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and the 2016 Victorian Premier's Award for Literature. His well-reviewed novel ''The Returns'' (2019) was a finalist in the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. During the late 2020 pandemic, he published ''The Fifth Season''. In 2021 Salom was recognised with the Outstanding Achievement Award of the 4th Boao International Poetry Award. Biography Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia, Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Blain
Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 19649 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), Georgina Blain completed an arts degree at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney where she studied law at the University of Sydney. She worked as a journalist commencing work in 1990 as a lawyer with the Australian Copyright Council and wrote many articles for their Bulletin (ISSN 0311-2934). Her first novel was ''Closed for Winter''. One of her most recent works ''Births, Deaths and Marriages'', a memoir of her childhood, was short-listed for the 2009 Nita Kibble Literary Award. The draft of ''Closed for Winter'' 1996 earned her an Australian Society of Authors' mentorship with Rosie Scott. She later commented that without this relationship and guidance she may not have completed the novel. When editing ''Between a Wol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Scott
Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Biography Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a white mother and an Aboriginal father. Scott has written five novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies. He began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English. His teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal. He spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his family's history. His first novel, ''True Country'', was published in 1993 with an edition published in a French translation in 2005. His second novel, ''Benang'', won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1999, the Miles Franklin Award 2000, and the Kate Challis RAKA Award 2001. Both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Laguna
Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an actor and is now a writer and playwright. She now lives in Melbourne. Awards * 2003 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood for ''Too Loud Lily'' * 2007 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers for ''Bird and Sugar Boy'' * 2009 longlisted Miles Franklin Award for ''One Foot Wrong'' * 2009 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards for ''One Foot Wrong'' * 2015 shortlisted Stella Prize for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2015 winner Miles Franklin Award for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2015 commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW Christina Stead Award for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2018 longlisted Stella Prize for ''The Choke'' * 2018 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize for ''The Choke'' *2021 longlisted Miles Franklin Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life To Come (novel)
''The Life to Come'' is a novel by Michelle de Kretser. The novel switches points of view between five loosely connected characters, all Australians. Sydney is the primary location of the novel's vignettes, but some take place in other parts of Australia, or in Paris, Sri Lanka, and other International locations. In his review in ''The Guardian''s Marcel Theroux wrote ''"The book is replete with examples of important things being forgotten, suppressed or misunderstood."'' ''The New York Times'' review remarked on the satirical nature of the novel, and the pretentiousness of the characters' obsession with exotic food, with one character explaining privileged Australians are obsessed with food ''“Because they live in a country of no importance.”'' In a review in ''The Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle De Kretser
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. Education and literary career De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, and in Melbourne at Elwood College and Paris. She worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, ''The Rose Grower''. Her second novel, published in 2003, ''The Hamilton Case'' was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, ''The Lost Dog'', was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the ''Australian Women's Book Review''. Her fourth novel, ''Questions of Travel'', won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature Society Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is an Australian doctor and author of two books, ''Australia Day'' (2017) and ''Room for a Stranger'' (2019). Cheng draws upon her biracial, Chinese-Australian heritage as well as her experience as a medical professional to inform her fictional work. ''Australia Day'' is Cheng's debut fictional work. It is a collection of fourteen short stories exploring the multicultural nature of the Australian experience. It was the recipient of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Her second book, ''Room for a Stranger'', was published in 2019 and has received critical acclaim, including being longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize for her essay, "All the Other Stories". Cheng has also published numerous articles on her experiences in general practice to journalism outlets such as the ABC and SBS. She continues to write and practice medicine. She currently resides with her husband and two children i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for ''The Sunday Age'' newspaper in Melbourne. Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer Fiona Capp, and their son. As of 2019, he also writes the non-fiction book review column for the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. Awards and nominations * 2002: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * 2005: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, ''The Gift of Speed'' * 2005: Prix Femina (France), Shortlisted for Best Foreign Novel, ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * 2008: Miles Franklin Award, Winner, ''The Time We Have Taken'' * 2008: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region, Winner, ''The Time We Have Taken'' * 2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Joint Winner for Fiction, '' A World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Valmorbida
Elise Valmorbida is an Italian Australian writer and creative writing tutor who lives in London, England. Biography Having graduated in English from the University of Melbourne, and later in graphic design from Central St. Martin's, Valmorbida was creative director at The Body Shop, then at Anglo-American brand agency Fitch. She is now the creative director of Word-Design. Her debut novel ''Matilde Waltzing'' was published in 1997 and nominated for two national literary awards. Her second book, a collection of true love stories, ''The Book Of Happy Endings'' was published in the UK, Australasia and America in 2007. In the following year, it was published in new translated editions in Korea (publ. Woongjing) and Germany (publ. Droemer). Her short stories have been published internationally via The Ian St James Award, Carve Magazine and anthologies such as ''From Here to Here, Common Ground,'' and ''The Bard & Co.'' Her satirical novel ''The TV President'' was published by CB Edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |