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History

These awards were announced by the South Australian Premier at the opening of Writers Week at the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1984

winner y separately published work icon Readings from Ecclesiastes : Poems Peter Goldsworthy , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z201819 1982 selected work poetry

Year: 1981

winner y separately published work icon Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , Ringwood : Penguin , 1981 Z34130 1981 single work novel

'Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everything

'Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a personal disaster that she would like to forget.

'While on assignment Judith encounters Minou, the manipulative young French-Vietnamese wife of a high-ranking Australian diplomat. Minou is desperate to rescue her children from Saigon, who were left behind when she fled. Judith also begins a romance with the enigmatic Indian scholar Kanan. These new loyalties throw her headlong into dramatic personal and professional dilemmas. It is on the East Malaysian coast, where the giant turtles gather to lay their eggs, that the conflict reaches its tragic, brutal climax.'  (Publication summary)

Year: 1979

winner y separately published work icon 1915 : A Novel Roger McDonald , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 Z80145 1979 single work novel historical fiction war literature

Year: 1978

winner y separately published work icon Water Life Judith Rodriguez , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1976 Z407323 1976 selected work poetry

Works About this Award

A Language that is Shaped by the Tablelands Pollyanna Sutton , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 1993; (p. C11)
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