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Last Chance to Enter 2012 PM’s Literary Awards
Entries for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards close on Wednesday, 1 February. Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Simon Crean, is pleased with the number of entries received so far and says that the judging panels are already underway with their reviewing process.This year’s awards include a prize for poetry for the first time. Mr Crean commented that ‘from bush ballad to hip hop, poetry is ingrained in the cultural life of our nation and our great poets deserve to be recognised alongside our best authors and historians’. (Media release, 25 January 2012)
Award categories now cover adult fiction, non-fiction, Australian history, poetry, young adult fiction and children’s fiction. A total of $600,000 will be awarded across the six categories.
To keep up to date with the news on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, subscribe to the Awards e-newsletter, join the Awards Facebook page or follow developments on Twitter (search for @artsculturegov or #PMAwards).
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Temple’s ‘Truth’ Wins Award for German Translation
Peter Temple’s Truth is the winner of the international division of the Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Prize). The prize, awarded annually since 1985, is judged by scholars, literary critics and booksellers.Temple is the second Australian writer to have a German translation recognised by the prize — Garry Disher won in 2000 (for Kickback) and in 2002 for (The Dragon Man).
Temple’s Truth is published in Australia by Text Publishing and in German translation by C. Bertelsmann Verlag. A feature film adaptation of Truth is currently being planned by filmmaker and Tropfest founder, John Polson. (Also adapted for film is Temple's 'Jack Irish' character. Two 'Jack Irish' telemovies will reach the small screen in 2012. Further details of the television productions are available on ABC Television's official blog.)
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Farewell Boitran Huynh-Beattie
The AustLit community is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Boitran Huynh-Beattie. Boitran has been a researcher and indexer with the Australian Multicultural Writers section of AustLit at the University of Wollongong for the past three years. She died as a result of a stroke on Monday 16 January 2012, in Singapore.
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