Western Australia Week Literary Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1998

winner y separately published work icon Kathleen O'Connor : Artist in Exile Julie Lewis , P. A. E. Hutchings , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z844164 1987 single work biography

Biography of painter Kathleen O'Connor, who was born in New Zealand, trained in Perth, Western Australia, and lived for much of her life in France.

Year: 1990

winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon Beach Plastic : Poems Caroline Caddy , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z477915 1989 selected work poetry
winner (Prose Fiction) y separately published work icon The Same Light Vasso Kalamaras , ( trans. Vasso Kalamaras et. al. )agent)expression Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z238257 1989 selected work short story poetry
joint winner (Non-Fiction Prose) y separately published work icon Emma : A Translated Life Emma Ciccotosto , Michal Bosworth , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1990 Z422185 1990 single work autobiography

Year: 1989

winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon Dalwurra : The Black Bittern : A Poem Cycle Colin Johnson , Veronica Brady (editor), Karin Hearn (illustrator), Perth : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1988 Z210544 1988 selected work poetry
winner (Prose Fiction) y separately published work icon Not Being Miriam Marion Campbell , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1988 Z477827 1988 single work novel

Year: 1988

winner (Non-Fiction Prose) y separately published work icon My Place Sally Morgan , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z384564 1987 single work autobiography (taught in 30 units)

'In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.' Source: Publisher's blurb.
winner (Prose Fiction) y separately published work icon Minimum of Two Tim Winton , Fitzroy : McPhee Gribble , 1987 Z413769 1987 selected work short story Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon Sky Poems Philip Salom , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1987 Z400365 1987 selected work poetry

Year: 1987

winner (Prose Fiction) y separately published work icon Sister Ships and Other Stories Joan London , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1986 Z32372 1986 selected work short story
winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon Dial Marina Lee Knowles , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1986 Z453435 1986 selected work poetry
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Works About this Award

Foreword [9-10 June 1990] Elizabeth Swanson , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 June 1990; (p. rev 8)
Awards May be Upgraded 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9 June 1990; (p. 53)
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