The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing About Italians in Australia (2005-2009)
Subcategory of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2009

winner y separately published work icon Death in the Mountains : The True Story of a Tuscan Murder Lisa Clifford , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2008 Z1536095 2008 single work prose Clifford recreates the world of her husband's great-grandfather in search of answers to his unsolved murder.

Year: 2008

winner y separately published work icon Head over Heel : Seduced By a Southern Italian Chris Harrison , Sydney : Pier 9 , 2008 Z1489677 2008 single work autobiography

Year: 2007

winner y separately published work icon Madonna of the Eucalypts Karen Sparnon , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2006 Z1265225 2006 single work novel historical fiction

Year: 2006

winner y separately published work icon When in Rome : Chasing La Dolce Vita Penelope Green , Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 2005 Z1216270 2005 single work autobiography travel

Year: 2005

winner y separately published work icon A Spoonful of Zucchero Kate Taylor , Haymarket : Little Red Apple Publishing , 2005 Z1220384 2005 single work novel young adult

'In 1908 Alfio Gatti's mother is forcibly removed from the family's Queensland cane farm, to exile on Peel Island. A year later ten-year-old Alfio is also taken. For the first time he hears the word leper and experiences the loathing and fear his condition creates. Peel Island becomes his harsh sanctuary. Among fellow sufferers, a drunk, a teacher, a playmate he discovers love, friendship and fun, but there is also prejudice and tragedy to endure. As Alfio grows from naive boy to adolescent he learns to cheat the system and escape the lies he must tell to hide his affliction.'

(Source: Trove)

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