Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2001
y
New Selected Poems
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z918005
1998
selected work
poetry
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Year: 1990
y
The Very Best of Friends
Julie Vivas
(illustrator),
Sydney
:
Margaret Hamilton Books
,
1989
Z667924
1989
single work
picture book
children's
"Since Jessie has never cared for her farmer husband's cat William, her difficult adjustment period after her husband's death makes William doubt if he is still welcome on the farm." (Source: Trove)
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Year: 1987
y
The Miracle Tree
Sydney
:
Hodder and Stoughton
,
1985
Z830977
1985
single work
children's fiction
children's
'The Miracle Tree is a story of a family separated by war ... a husband and wife and her mother (who was alienated from them by their hasty and unannounced marriage before the war). Taro, the husband, and Hanako, the wife, are parted by the war and after its end Taro discovers that Hanako was in Nagasaki when the atom bomb was dropped. He goes there in search of her but eventually presumes her dead and concentrates on his new garden, caring in particular for the pine tree of the title, which he has planted himself.' (Source: Ginninderra Press)
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Year: 1969
winner y
The Min-Min
Melbourne
:
Lansdowne
,
1966
Z949462
1966
single work
novel
young adult
'Across nearly two thousand miles of flat, sandy desert country runs a railway line, linking east and west Australia. Scattered along it are small groups of houses. Here the fettlers live, isolated from towns and other people, maintaining the line in the blazing heat.
At night, out of the blackness the min-min appears, an elusive and mystic light dancing on the horizon, beckoning and retreating. Aborigines tell of the wonder and excitement this small swaying light arouses. To Sylvie, a young girl living with her family at the siding, the gleam in the dark is symbolic of her life and future.
Her brother Reg, a "young rough", is frightened to stay at the siding after some of the mischief he causes. So he and Sylvie set off across the endless desert, carrying insufficient water and some bread and jam, walking under the scorching sun, in dust and wind, and facing icy nights.'
Source: 1966 publisher's blurb.
