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History
This bicentennial award of $6500 was presented by the Netherland's Prince Claus during a visit to Adelaide. The prize was a gift of the Netherlands Government.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1988
winner (Amsterdam) y
Vreemdeling in de Spiegel : Autobiografie van een Nederlandse Emigrante
( trans. Frans Bruning
)expression
Amsterdam
:
Balans
,
1988
Z828368
1988
single work
autobiography
Lolo Houbein left the Holland of her war-troubled childhood to live in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Her spiritual journeying has been guided by intuition as she searches for an ancestry so scattered and elusive that fact and imagination mingle in the telling. Belief in the relatedness of all human beings has led to her meeting people of many races, including the Dalai Lama.
Works About this Award
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'The Empty Page' : Dutch Migrant Literature about Australia 1992-1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Making of a Pluralist Australia 1950-1990: Selected Papers from the Inaugural EASA Conference 1991 1992; (p. 73-83)
