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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2023
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Year: 2022
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Year: 2021
winner y The Whitewash The Whitewash : A Novel St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 24689178 2022 single work novel'It sounded like a good idea at the time: A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production budget and up-and-coming Hong Kong actor JK Jr, who, let’s be honest, is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but probably the hottest, Brood Empire was basically a sure thing. Until it wasn’t.
'So how did it all fall apart? There were smart guys involved. So smart, so woke. So woke it hurts. There was top-notch talent across the board and the financial backing of a heavyweight Chinese studio. And yet, Brood Empire is remembered now not as a historical landmark of Asian representation that smashed the bamboo ceiling in Hollywood, but rather as a fiasco of seismic proportions.
'The Whitewash is the definitive oral history of the whole sordid mess. Unofficial. Unasked for. Only intermittently fact-checked, and featuring a fool’s gallery of actors, producers, directors, film historians and scummy click-bait journalists, to answer the question of how it all went so horribly, horribly wrong.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2020
winner y If You're Happy St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 23256244 2022 selected work short story'The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy.
'A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard, a lonely man finds an abandoned toddler, a second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion, a young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson’s stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.'
Source : publisher's blurb
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Year: 2019
Works About this Award
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Thursday Island Author Emerges as a Winner 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 10 September no. 1032 2012; (p. 3) -
Island Author Up For An Unexpected Reward 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 3 September no. 1031 2012; (p. 4) -
Calling for Change 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 1-2 September 2012; (p. 17) -
These Books are Made from Talking 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 August 2012; (p. 3)