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Writer Andrew McMillan has died at his home in Darwin. Born in Brisbane, the journalist, poet and musician settled in the Northern Territory after covering the 1988 Midnight Oil / Warumpi Band tour. In a statement released following his death, McMillan was described as ‘one of the Territory’s great eccentrics — but also one of its best contemporary writers’.
McMillan’s book An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land, first published in 2001 and then in a revised edition in 2007, won the Northern Territory Chief Minister's Book of the Year Award in 2009. The book speaks to McMillan’s deep connection with the Yolngu people over many years.
The Age newspaper reports that proceeds from McMillan’s estate ‘will be dedicated to setting up a writer's retreat in his favourite place, the tiny settlement of Larrimah, 430 kilometres south-east of Darwin’. ('NT Writer Loses Cancer Fight') An anthology of McMillan’s writing, in preparation at the time of his death, will be published posthumously.
The statement released after McMillan’s death is available on the Crikey.com website.
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The inaugural winners of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced during three separate events between 15 and 31 January 2012.As anticipated, the box office favourite Red Dog — an adaptation of a Louis de Bernieres novella — won the award for Best Film. In other categories, The Slap won the award for Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series. The television version of Christos Tsiolkas’s novel also collected the award for Best Screenplay in Television (Brendan Cowell for episode three, Harry).
Other writing awards went to Leon Ford for Griff the Invisible (Best Original Screenplay), Shaun Grant for Snowtown (Best Adapted Screenplay) and Anthony Maras for The Palace (Best Screenplay in a Short Film).
The AACTA Awards are ‘a continuum of the ... heritage established by the Australian Film Institute's (AFI) Awards’. A full list of inaugural winners is available on the AACTA website.
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US Recognition for Silvey’s ‘Jasper Jones’
Craig Silvey’s 2009 novel Jasper Jones continues to garner praise. After winning several high profile Australian awards in 2009-2010 and being shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Western Australian tale has now been chosen as an honour book in the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. This US prize, named after a Kansas librarian and offered by the American Library Association, names one winner and four honour books annually. The award was won in 2009 by Melina Marchetta for On the Jellicoe Road.
Jasper Jones is published in the US by Alfred K. Knopf (see US book cover, at left, with the Printz medallion sticker affixed). To read about this year’s Michael L. Printz winner and the other 2012 honour books, visit the American Library Association website.
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