Tasmania Pacific Region Prize
or Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Tasmania Pacific Region Prize is a biennial prize established in 2001 and is awarded to the best novel published by a citizen or resident of Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia or Melanesia.

Notes

  • Established in 2001, the prize was initially offered to the best novel (Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize) published in the preceding two years. In 2003 two additional prizes were added: the Tasmania Pacific Poetry Prize (inaugural year 2003) and the Bicentenary History Prize (inaugural year 2004). All sections are open to residents or citizens of Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia.

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Works About this Award

Editorial David Owen , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 92 2003; (p. 5-6)
Prize Writer Chips the Dropouts Sue Bailey , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 31 March 2003; (p. 7) New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones and Australian Arnold Zable comment on the controversy surrounding the 2003 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize.
Authors Pull Out in Award Protest 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 March 2003; (p. 9)
Winton Joins Prize Boycott Andrew Darby , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 November 2002; (p. 5)
Author Winton Joins Artists in Logging Boycott Andrew Darby , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2002; (p. 9)
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