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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2010
winner y
Barley Patch
Artarmon
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Giramondo Publishing
,
2009
Z1594803
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Barley Patch ... is a meditation on fiction and Murnane's own dedication to writing, and an examination of the relation between memory, image and lived experience. It is funny, self-deprecating, personal, as well as thoughtful and reflective, and enchanting in its clarity, detail and evocations of Australian life and landscape.' (from the publisher's website)
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Year: 2008
winner y
Someone Else : Fictional Essays
Artarmon
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Writing and Society Research Centre
Giramondo Publishing
,
2007
Z1415040
2007
selected work
essay
'...Hughes pays homage to twenty-one artists, writers and musicians who have had a formative influence on his imagination. From Chekhov and Borges and Beckett, to proust, Rothko and Cage - each essay brings its subjuect to life in unexpected ways. Kafka writes the parable of Abraham and Isaac, with no one to stay Abraham's knife. Wittgenstein considers the relationship between turtles and time. Bob Dylan stars in a fantasy of travellers and deserts and women with knives and silver earrings. Just around the corner from where Hughes works, Dostoyevsky fries kidneys in the kitchen of his Stanley Street terrace...Someone Else uses the essay as a form of autobiography. Here, however, the essays are fictions. Or are they? Hughes tells the stories of the figures who live in his mind by making them tell his stories - and in doing so engages in an art of literary vantriloquism.' - back cover
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Year: 2006
winner y
More or Less Than 1-100
i
"not simply the stremam but they who thought of following",
Exeter
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Shearsman Books
,
2004
Z1150469
2004
single work
poetry
The poem More or Less Than 1-100 'consists of 100 parts, the line-count arcing from one line in part 1 to fifty lines in part 50, and then back down to one in part 100 with parts of equal line-counts making mirroring pairs.' (Back cover)
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Year: 2004
winner y
The Eastern Slope Chronicle
Rose Bay
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Brandl and Schlesinger
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2002
Z976924
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
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Year: 2002
winner y
Tiger's Eye : A Memoir
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
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2000
Z282560
2000
selected work
autobiography
short story
prose
(taught in 6 units)
