Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award
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Notes

  • The Annual Foreign Novels 21st Centuray Awards were first presented in 2001 by The People's Literature Publishing House and Chinese Association of Foreign Literature. The Publishing House and the Association select a number of books, each of which is translated and published in China.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2009

winner y separately published work icon Landscape of Farewell Alex Miller , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2007 Z1434892 2007 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

'Landscape of Farewell ... is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After the death of his much-loved wife and his recognition that he will never write the great study of history that was to be his life's crowning work, Max believes his life is all but over. Everything changes, though, when his valedictory lecture is challenged by Professor Vita McLelland, a feisty young Australian Aboriginal academic visiting Germany. Their meeting and growing friendship sets Max on a journey that would have seemed unthinkable just a few short weeks earlier.

'When, at Vita's invitation, Max travels to Australia, he forms a deep friendship with her uncle, Aboriginal elder Dougald Gnapun. It is a friendship that not only gives new meaning and purpose to Max, but which teaches him the profound importance of truth-telling in reconciliation with his own and his country's past.' (Publisher's blurb)

Works About this Award

Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 January 2009; (p. 30)
A column canvassing current literary news including a brief report on Alex Miller's win the 2009 Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award and news on the newly formed ABC Books division of HarperCollins.
The Overflow Rosemary Sorensen , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 January 2009; (p. 9)
A column canvassing current literary news including brief reports on the win by Alex Miller of the 2009 Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award and on the death of poet Val Vallis.
Chinese Honour for Aussie Writer 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 January 2009; (p. 34)
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