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The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture Portal

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...

Australian children's books - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian children's literature rests on the enthusiasm and talents of many individuals, including a great many more Australian writers, illustrators and books than can be listed in this article. The earliest books published for children were mostly ins...

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He has brought to the Internet, Jacket, a website dedicated to Australian literary history, reviews, articles and interviews and everything to do with poetry. Extensive content relating to the Ern Malley affair appears in Jacket 1, including some of Mall...

Australian literary magazines - Australia's Culture Portal

From the Australian Magazine's debut in 1821, Australia's magazine industry developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through popular titles such as the Bulletin and Melbourne Punch. Alongside these more mainstream publications, a series of small,...

Australian novels - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...

Australian language, letters and literature - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

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The Trust Foundation administers the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Portia Geach Fund Memorial Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, the Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarships, Sir Robert Askin Operatic Travelling Scholarship, the Max

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2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist announced - State of the Arts   (website State of the Arts )

Receive our FREE arts newsletter, with reviews and the latest arts news. Today the 2005 shortlist for Australia s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, was announced. >>The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates Australia...

The 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner announced - State of the Arts   (website State of the Arts )

Australia s most prestigious and richest single literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has been won by Andrew McGahan for his novel The White Earth published by Allen and Unwin. >>Brian Johns, Chair, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) said, "CAL c...

Morag Fraser AM joins the judging panel for the Miles Franklin Literary Award - State of the Arts   (website State of the Arts )

Wednesday 2 February, 2005>>In joining the Judging Panel for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005, Morag Fraser AM joins Ms Eve Abbey, Professor Robert Dixon, Mr Ian Hicks and the State Librarian of NSW, Dagmar Schmidmaier AM. Ms Fraser has also judged...

Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - State of the Arts   (website State of the Arts )

Receive our FREE arts newsletter, with reviews and the latest arts news. Thursday 17 June, 2004>>Australia s most prestigious and richest single literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has been won by SHIRLEY HAZZARD for her novel The Great Fi...

The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture and Recreation Portal )

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...

Words Out West - Awards   (website Words out West )

http://www.wordsoutwest.com.au/client/index.cfm Words Out West Blog. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the winners of the PM's Literary Awards. Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced the 14 Australian books short listed for the inaugural 20...

Words Out West: 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist   (website Words out West )

For 2008 a total of 59 books were submitted and yesterday nine novels for the Miles Franklin Literary Award announced (drum roll please) and they are: Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin); Love without Hope by Rodney Hall (Picador Pan Macm...

literature - in2oz creative australia - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade   (website Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) )

Alexis Wright is one of Australia's best-known Indigenous authors and a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her books include Grog War (Magabala Books, 1997), Plains of Power (University of Queensland Press, ...

Fremantle Press : Editors : Deborah Robertson   (website Fremantle Arts Centre Press )

Deborah Robertson was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, in 1959. Author Chris Pash will return to WA next week for a reunion of whalers at Whale World in Albany. The last whale taken was a female sperm whale in the Southern Ocean off Albany, Wester...

Fremantle Press : Books : Proudflesh by Deborah Robertson   (website Fremantle Arts Centre Press )

Stylish, perceptive and highly readable, Proudflesh is a fine introduction to the powerful writing of this best selling writer who was short listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Author Chris Pash will return to WA next week for a reunion of whale...

Fremantle Press : Books : Benang - From the Heart by Kim Scott   (website Fremantle Arts Centre Press )

,Äò,Ķ Benang soars to the level of superb storytelling with an emotional punch to the guts, not unlike Toni Morrison,Äôs Beloved. Author Chris Pash will return to WA next week for a reunion of whalers at Whale World in Albany. The last whale taken was a...

Fremantle Press : Books : Proudflesh by Deborah Robertson   (website Fremantle Arts Centre Press )

Stylish, perceptive and highly readable, Proudflesh is a fine introduction to the powerful writing of this best selling writer who was short listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Author Chris Pash will return to WA next week for a reunion of whale...