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History

Offered by Sydney PEN in 1981 on the year of PEN International's Golden Jubilee.

Latest Winners / Recipients

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)

winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon Mudcrab at Gambaro's Judith Rodriguez , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1980 Z407111 1980 selected work poetry
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