FAW Australian Unity Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

History

 Presented by Fellowship of Australian Writers for a book with an Australian theme.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1996

winner y separately published work icon The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow Thea Astley , Ringwood New York (City) : Viking , 1996 Z287862 1996 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 1 units)

'Tracing the lead-up to and aftermath of a bloody showdown when the superintendent of a Queensland mission goes on a murderous rampage.

'In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife’s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead.

'The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after - for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.' (Publication summary)

Year: 1995

winner y separately published work icon The Orchard Thieves Elizabeth Jolley , Ringwood : Viking , 1995 Z817874 1995 single work novella

Year: 1994

winner y separately published work icon Georgiana : A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer Brenda Niall , Carlton South : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1994 Z939915 1994 single work biography
X