‘Town’ a winner

May 20, 2008

uqp.jpgGood news for James Roy, whose suite of short stories, Town, has won Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature in the NSW Premier’s Awards.

The Patricia Wrightson Prize has been awarded to Li Cunxin & illustrator Anne Spudvilas for The Peasant Prince, the picture book adaptation of Li’s international besteller Mao’s Last Dancer.

The Arts NSW website will have a full list of winners soon, but in the meantime, this Sydney Morning Herald report gives an overview.

Congratulations to them all.

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NSW Premier makes his selection

April 21, 2008

The shortlists for the various categories of the NSW Premier’s Awards have been announced.

The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature is worth $15 000 to the eventual winner, who will be selected from:

Scroll down to the judges’ comments on the announcement to see just why they have selected these particular titles.

The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were instigated by Neville Wran in 1979.

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