FAW Australian Literature Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

This national literary award ran from 1997-2010.

Notes

  • Variously known as the FAW Australian Natives' Association Literature Award from 1978 to 1993, the FAW Australian Unity Literature Award until 1996, the FAW Literature Award until 2001 and the FAW Melbourne University Literature Award from 2001. The Award began as an award for fiction or non-fiction of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian theme. In 2003 the criteria was changed to an award for a non-fiction work, including biography and autobiography, of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian theme.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1999

joint winner y separately published work icon In the New Country David Foster , London : Fourth Estate , 1999 Z114128 1999 single work novel satire
joint winner (Melbourne University Press Literature Award.) y separately published work icon Shark Bruce Pascoe , Broome : Magabala Books , 1999 Z834973 1999 single work novel (taught in 8 units) The third novel in the series that began with Fox and Ruby-Eyed Coucal. Jim Fox has recently returned to the land of his birth from the Papuan war of independence. Meanwhile, the sleepy town of Tired Sailor is nudged awake when a black child arrives, but will it ever really wake up? (Source: Publisher's website)

Year: 1997

winner y separately published work icon Wrack James Bradley , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 1997 Z317165 1997 single work novel While searching for the wreck of a Portuguese ship which could rewrite the history of Australia, archaeologist David Norfolk stumbles upon a corpse buried fifty years before. Determined to understand its connection to the ship, David uncovers a story of obsession, secrets and sexual passion (Source: Publisher's description).
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