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History
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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1998
winner y Kathleen O'Connor : Artist in Exile Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z844164 1987 single work biographyBiography of painter Kathleen O'Connor, who was born in New Zealand, trained in Perth, Western Australia, and lived for much of her life in France.
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Year: 1990
winner (Poetry) y Beach Plastic : Poems Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z477915 1989 selected work poetrywinner (Prose Fiction) y The Same Light ( trans. Vasso Kalamaras et. al. )agent)expression Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z238257 1989 selected work short story poetryjoint winner (Non-Fiction Prose) y Emma : A Translated Life Michal Bosworth , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1990 Z422185 1990 single work autobiography -
Year: 1989
winner (Poetry) y Dalwurra : The Black Bittern : A Poem Cycle Veronica Brady (editor), Karin Hearn (illustrator), Perth : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1988 Z210544 1988 selected work poetrywinner (Prose Fiction) y Not Being Miriam Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1988 Z477827 1988 single work novel -
Year: 1988
winner (Non-Fiction Prose) y My Place Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z384564 1987 single work autobiography (taught in 30 units)'In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.' Source: Publisher's blurb.
winner (Prose Fiction) y Minimum of Two Fitzroy : McPhee Gribble , 1987 Z413769 1987 selected work short story Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. (Source: LibrariesAustralia) -
Year: 1987
winner (Prose Fiction) y Sister Ships and Other Stories Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1986 Z32372 1986 selected work short story
Works About this Award
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Foreword [9-10 June 1990] 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 June 1990; (p. rev 8) -
Awards May be Upgraded 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9 June 1990; (p. 53)