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Shaun Tan Wins Major Prize in Adelaide
Shaun Tan has won the overall $10,000 Premier's Award as well as the $15,000 Children's Literature Award in this year's Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. The judges declared that Tan's winning book, Tales from Outer Suburbia, presented 'a powerful stimulus to the imagination of readers of all ages'. (Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature website)
Other winners in the 2010 awards include Ransom by David Malouf (Fiction Award), Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane (Innovation Award), Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Rowe (Non-Fiction Award) and The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea (John Bray Poetry Award).
For a full list of national and South Australian winners, see the Arts SA website.
UPCOMING EVENTS/PRIZES/LAUNCHES
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- Year of the Edit with Kim Wilkins 21 Feb 2010
- Watermark Literary Society program 2010 01 Jan 2010
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ON THIS DAY, 15 MARCH...
- Georgiana Huntly McCrae born 1804, 3 works
- Fred Booty born 1879, 6 works
- Hesba Brinsmead born 1922, 39 works
- Betty Collins born 1928, 11 works
- Ioanna Liakakos born 1933, 42 works
- Pat Bunny born 1935, 1 works
- Arthur Frame born 1949, 2 works
- Elizabeth Fox born 1952, 1 works
- Alban Charles Stonor died 1866, 2 works
- John Service died 1884, 1 works
- Archibald Forsyth died 1908, 1 works
- Catherine Martin died 1937, 60 works
- Ann F. Rylah died 1969, 2 works
- A. W. Wheen died 1971, 4 works
- Rebecca West died 1983, 1 works
- A. A. Morrison died 1998, 9 works
- Murray Mottram died 2004, 1 works
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