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The award honoured James's "extraordinarily prolific and successful career" as a writer of poetry, novels, memoirs, literary criticism and scripts and a champion of "an internationalised Australian culture". In an acceptance speech read by Stephen Romei, a judge and the literary editor of The Australian, James, 73, said he could not travel far because of his ailments, which include leukaemia. Recalling the childhood recorded in his 1980 Unreliable Memoirs, James said, "Kogarah was the Paris of the South Pacific. My ideas of sophistication revolved around Parry's milk bar in Railway Parade, Kogarah. "If I could be with you to accept this Special award for "the great son of Sydney", Clive magnificent prize in person, I would spend James. Photo: Ken Robertson the first few dollars in Parry's, shouting everybody present to a fruit sundae." Among 16 other winners were Kim Scott, whose "masterful" novel That Deadman Dance, about relations between the Noongar people and European settlers in Western Australia, won the $40,000 Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the $10,000 Book of the Year award. A darker novel of black-white encounters in Tasmania, The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson, won the new writing award and the Australian history prize went to Russell McGregor for his study of Aboriginal assimilation, Indifferent Inclusion. Tim Bonyhady won the multicultural award and the general history prize for Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family. The non-fiction prize went to Mark McKenna for An Eye for Eternity, his biography of Manning Clark. 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