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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2008

winner y separately published work icon The Paperbark Shoe Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders Goldie Goldbloom , North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2009 Z1632501 2009 single work novel 'Gin, the albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum. Toad, a little man who wears corsets, marries to prove his manhood. Together they are freaks - feared and ridiculed by the remote farming community in which they live. Into their lives come two Italian POWs bringing music, sensuality and a love that will fan the flames of small town bigotry.' (From the publisher's website.) Award won under the 2010 US publication title, Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders
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