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History
This award was supported by the Eros Foundation, a group representing brothels, adult stores and other parts of the sex trade.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1995
winner y
The First Stone : Some Questions About Sex and Power
Chippendale
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Picador
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1995
Z76144
1995
single work
prose
(taught in 6 units)
When two female university students went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party by the head of their co-ed residential college, the shock of the accusations split the community. Helen Garner examines the issues of sex and power which surround this incident in a blend of reportage and personal experience. (Source: Trove)
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Year: 1994
winner y
Soaring
Pymble
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Angus and Robertson
,
1994
Z551270
1994
single work
novel
'This extraordinary novel moves between Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia, and Ireland, with its cast of flamboyant misfits playing out the eternal search for love and passion. Rodney (hang-glider and merchant of erotica); Rebekah (19 year old Alcoholics Anonymous member, father unknown) ; and Michael (maverick motorcycling priest) are the three voices which speak powerfully, nakedly to us in Soaring. ' (Publication summary)
Works About this Award
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Garner Wins Eros Award for `Exposing Political Correctness' 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 18 December 1995; (p. 4)
