August 2008


ASAL is pleased to announce the 2007 prize winners

The ALS Gold Medal is awarded to Michelle de Kretser for The Lost Dog (Allen & Unwin)

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ASAL, in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association, announces that the winner of the 2008 The Magarey Prize for Biography is Sylvia Martin for Ida Leeson: A Life. Not a Blue-Stocking Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2006) The read the judges’ report , click here (more…)

The Mary Gilmore Prize for a First Book of Poetry is awarded to Nathan Shepherdson for Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror (UQP)

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