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South Australian Literary Awards (2024-)
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (2014-2023)
Festival Awards for Literature (SA) (1986-2013)
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History

Introduced by the State Government in 1986 and originally managed by Arts South Australia, the biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature celebrate Australia’s writing culture by offering national and state-based literary prizes. 

They are granted biennially for the best works published in Australia in the previous two years, and include seven national awards (for published works) and two awards and two fellowships specifically for South Australian writers. In 2012, a Young Adult Fiction Award was introduced.

In 2024, the awards were rebranded as the South Australian Literary Awards, and management moved to the State Library of South Australia.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Festival_Awards_for_Literature; https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/2024-south-australian-literary-awards

Notes

  • The Festival Awards for Literature, first begun in 1986 and sponsored through Arts SA, by the South Australian Government are held biennially. Winners are announced in Adelaide Writers' Week.

Administration

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Works About this Award

Suburb's Dark Side a Novel Stimulus Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 February 2012; (p. 13)
Miles Pass For Prized Return Deborah Bogle , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 March 2010; (p. 49)
Tan Takes Premier's Prize Michaela Boland , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 1 March 2010; (p. 16)
Poet on a Roll with Awards in Adelaide Pia Akerman , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 March 2008; (p. 6)
Award Winners Angela Bennie , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 March 2008; (p. 16)
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