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History

'Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA) was an initiative of the Government of Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts.[1] It was Australia's richest literary prize,[2] with a purse of A$110,000. The award was established in 2007 and the first and only winner was announced in November 2008, from entries published in 2007. In 2010 it was announced the award would be discontinued, with resources merged with the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (PBA).' (Award summary)

Notes

  • Announced in 2008, this award offered a prize of $110,000 and was open to works written by an author resident in Australia or Asia, or which were primarily set in Australia or an Asian country.

    No prize was offered in 2009. A review of the award was announced in February 2009 by the Western Australian Arts Minister, John Day. In early 2010, Day ended the award, saying it was 'unsustainable'.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2008

inaugural winner y separately published work icon The Complete Stories David Malouf , New York (City) : Pantheon Books , 2007 Z1422116 2007 selected work short story

In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of the vast Australian continent. Malouf writes about men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, puzzling over not only their own lives but also the place they have come to occupy in the lives of others. This single volume gathers both a new collection of Malouf’s short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.

Source: Penguin Random House

(http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/106744/the-complete-stories-by-david-malouf/9780307386038/)
VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (9)

Works About this Award

WA Prem's Awards : Asia Award Discontinued, Prem's Award to Receive Additional Funding 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April vol. 89 no. 7 2010; (p. 7)
Overflow Rosemary Sorensen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 February 2010; (p. 19) A column canvassing current literary news including the announcement of the demise of the Australia-Asia Literary Award and a change in editorship of the poetry journal Jacket.
Literary Award Dumped 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 February 2010; (p. 33)
Writers Plead Case for Book Awards Rod Moran , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 24 August 2009; (p. 4)
Australia-Asia Literary Award Suspended 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 68 no. 2 2009; (p. 15-16)
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