South Australian Premier's Awards

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The South Australian Premier's Awards (also known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) - were established in 1986. They are granted biennially to the judged-best authors in Australian children’s literature, fiction, innovation, non-fiction and poetry. The awards, which judge the best works published in Australia in the previous two years, are the nation’s most competitive literary awards (563 entries submitted for 2006).

The Premier’s Award recognises the most outstanding published book submitted to the awards.

[edit] 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

  • South Australian Premier's Award for Literature: Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter
  • Children's Literature: Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer
  • Fiction: The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
  • Innovation: Someone Else: Fictional Essays by John Hughes
  • Non-Fiction: Sunrise West by Jacob G Rosenberg
  • John Bray Poetry Award: Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter
  • Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian Writer: Merger - art, life and the other thing by Duncan Graham
  • Unpublished Manuscript by an SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: The Second Fouling Mark by Stephen Orr
  • Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship: Steve Evans
  • Carclew Fellowship: Roseanne Hawke

[edit] 2006 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

  • South Australian Premier's Award for Literature: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
  • Children's Literature: It's Not All About You, Calma! by Barry Jonsberg
  • Fiction: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
  • Innovation: <More or Less Than> 1-100 by M. T. C. Cronin
  • Non-Fiction: Velocity by Mandy Sayer
  • John Bray Poetry Award: Totem by Luke Davies
  • Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian Writer: This Uncharted Hour by Finegan Kruckemeyer
  • Unpublished Manuscript by an SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: The Quakers by Rachel Hennessy
  • Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship: Mike Ladd
  • Carclew Fellowship: Christine Harris

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