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Media Release Winners Announced Media Release Winners announced for 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 19/5/13 The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced tonight at the State Library of NSW, with a total of $305,000 offered across 12 prizes. NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell said: “I am once again delighted to see a wealth of varied and innovative works in this year’s Premier’s Literary Awards. The winners are indicative of the high standard of Australian literature and writing which is so highly regarded, both here and internationally.” Minister for the Arts, George Souris MP, commented: “The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are an opportunity for NSW to celebrate and encourage Australia’s literary community. While providing financial support to some of our nation’s best writers – both established and emerging – we recognise that reading books and writing are an important part of the arts and creative industries, and of great value to our culture.” According to Senior Judge, Dr Kathryn Heyman: “Australian writers are engaging fiercely and lyrically with issues of contemporary importance, and bringing new insights to past stories.” “It’s fantastic to see winning titles from both small presses and main house publishers,” said Dr Heyman. Judges’ comments on the winning titles are attached. Categories and winners: Christina Stead Prize (Fiction, $40,000) THE Y OF EA S R K O B Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany (Pan Macmillan Australia) O O O B K R S A O E F Y UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000) T E H H E T Y The Last Thread, Michael Sala (Affirm Press) F E A O R S K O O B Douglas Stewart Prize (Non‐fiction, $40,000) The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh (Melbourne University Publishing) Kenneth Slessor Prize (Poetry, $30,000) Ruby Moonlight, Ali Cobby‐Eckermann (Magabala Books) Patricia Wrightson Prize (Children’s Literature, $30,000) The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon, Aaron Blabey (Penguin Group Australia) P&D-4017-3/2013 Media Release Ethel Turner Prize (Young People’s Literature, $30,000) A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty (Pan Macmillan Australia) Nick Enright Prize (Playwriting, $30,000) The Damned, Reg Cribb (Black Swan State Theatre Company) Betty Roland Prize (Scriptwriting, $30,000) Dead Europe, Louise Fox (See‐saw films) Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW Award ($20,000) Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From, Tim Soutphommasane (New South Publishing) NSW Premier’s Translation Prize ($30,000) Peter Boyle The NSW Premier's Translation Prize is offered biennially. The Prize is intended to acknowledge eth contribution made to literary culture by Australian translators. Proposed by the International PEN Sydney, it is funded by the NSW Government and the Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW. The judges commented: "The choices a translator makes are important, if not crucial, in bringing us worldviews and experiences that are culturally specific, yet carry our common humanity across the language and culture divide. Against the culturally homogenizing trends of globalisation, a translator such as Boyle introduces a crack: out of which steps a world." Book of the Year ($10,000) Ruby Moonlight, Ali Cobby‐Eckermann (Magabala Books) THE Y OF EA S R People’s Choice K O B O O O Animal People, Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) B K R S A O E F Y T E H The 2013 winner was chosen by the people of NSW, who voted online H E T Y F E A O R www.sl.nsw.gov.au/premiersliteraryawards, from the shortlist for the 2013 Christina S K O O B Stead Prize. Special Award ($10,000): David Ireland AM Under exceptional circumstances the judges may propose that a Special Award be made either for: • an Australian literary work that is not readily covered by the existing Awards categories, or P&D-4017-3/2013 Media Release • in recognition of an Australian writer’s achievements generally. The Special Award is not open to entry and cannot be awarded to a work that has been submitted to the 2012 Premier’s Literary Awards. Past recipients of this award include AD Hope, Judith Wright, Nick Enright, Ruth Park, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Rosemary Dobson, Thomas Keneally AO, Katharine Brisbane and Clive James. The Special Award will be made at the discretion of the Government. About David Ireland AM: David Ireland is one of only four Australian writers to win the Miles Franklin Award more than twice (the others being Thea Astley and Tim Winton – four times, and Peter Carey – three times). He was born on a kitchen table in Lakemba in 1927. He is the author of 10 novels. Geordie Williamson, in his book Burning Library, writes that David Ireland’s traces can be seen everywhere: in the early meta‐fictions of Peter Carey and the most recent novel by Malcolm Knox; in the grungier corners of Andrew McGahan and Christos Tsiolkas, as well as such unlikely places as George Miller’s Mad Max films and even Nick Cave. According to the judges: David Ireland has made a significant contribution to Australian literature; the Special Award is a wonderful way of rewarding this extraordinary talent. BACKGROUND NOTES • Books nominated for the Literary Awards must have been first published between 1 October 2011 and 30 September 2012. THE Y OF EA S R K O B • Writers and illustrators whose works are nominated must be living Australian citizens or O O O B K persons holding permanent resident status. R S A O E F • The awards are judged by an independent committee of writers, academics, critics and Y T E H H E T other sector professionals who have been appointed by the Premier or the Minister for Y F E A O R S K O O B the Arts or their delegates. • The inaugural NSW Premier's Literary Awards were presented in 1979 by Premier Neville Wran and were the first Premier's literary awards to be offered in Australia. • A k‘NSW Boo of the Year’ may be chosen by the judging panel from among the winners of the individual prizes, and the Government may, at its discretion, make an additional payment of $10,000 prize money to the writer of the work so designated. P&D-4017-3/2013 Media Release • The Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW Award ($20,000) is sponsored wholly by the Community Relations Commission. The award is offered to the writer of a book (fiction or non‐fiction), play, music drama or script which is deemed by the judges to have both: made a significant contribution to Australian literature, theatre, film, radio or television in its portrayal of the interaction of Australia’s diverse cultures, and canvassed issues arising from the Australian immigration and migrant settlement experience. • The NSW Premier’s Translation Prize ($30,000) is offered biennially. The prize was proposed by the International PEN Sydney Centre and is funded by Arts NSW and the Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW with a commemorative medallion, sponsored by Sydney PEN. The NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards are administered by the State Library of NSW. For more information please contact: Kate Butler, Awards Coordinator, State Library of NSW (02) 9273 1582 or [email protected] MEDIA CONTACT: Vanessa Bond, Media & Communications Manager, State Library of NSW (02) 9273 1566, 0411 259 898, [email protected] THE Y OF EA S R K O B O O O B K R S A O E F Y T E H H E T Y F E A O R S K O O B P&D-4017-3/2013 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Judges’ Reports for Winners Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds Pan Macmillan Australia Mateship with Birds is an account of the shy, cautious courtship between Harry, a lonely dairy farmer, and Betty, a bruised single mother with two children. Harry and Betty live in a country town where human beings and animals share the same space; Harry knows a great deal more about the sex lives of his dairy cows than he knows about women. The down-to-earth picture of rural life — realistic in its wealth of detail and without sentimentality — is infused with subdued humour and rendered in plain but graceful prose which occasionally ascends to poetry. Mateship with Birds is a beautifully crafted book and a joy to read. In this wonderfully lyrical book, Tiffany evokes the breadth of a rural landscape through her moving story of two wary people who each lack the confidence to believe they could be loved by the other. The simplicity of Tiffany’s language and the gentleness of her narrative give to the story a poetical brilliance that is at once energetic and serene. With an eye for detail and a willingness to confront topics more easily left untouched, Tiffany has created in Mateship with Birds a memorable work of gentle beauty, wry humour and delicate but earthy imagery. UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5000) Michael Sala The Last Thread Affirm Press The Last Thread follows the growth of a boy to manhood, as he is overshadowed by a handsomer, more confident elder brother, and dogged by memories of an unstable home environment (a divorce, an absent father, a mother torn in her loyalties between her children and the new man in her life). He shuttles back and forth between the Netherlands and Australia, trying to make sense of the hand that fate has dealt him.
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