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History
This national literary award ran from 1997-2010.
Notes
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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
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Year: 1999
joint winner y
In the New Country
London
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Fourth Estate
,
1999
Z114128
1999
single work
novel
satire
joint winner (Melbourne University Press Literature Award.) y
Shark
Broome
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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)
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Year: 1997
winner y
Wrack
Milsons Point
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Vintage Australia
,
1997
Z317165
1997
single work
novel
Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of the discovery of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history.
An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpse’s identity – and also its connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred by passion, rivalry and betrayal. But what does he know about the ship and the murder – and will he tell David before it is too late?
(Source: Publisher's description).
