Newfound love for AFL and the cost of student public transport were the topics of the winning essays in the inaugural competition for young writers.
Essays about libraries and languages have nabbed the top spot in the prize’s inaugural year.
In Prophet Song,author Paul Lynch taps into the unrest in western democracies and their indifference towards disasters.
Gavin Yuan Gao was memorising ancient Chinese poems then turned to old English and noticed a similarity. Gao is one of six writers to have received an $80,000 prize in the awards.
The Booker Prize is announced on November 26,with this year’s shortlist featuring six novels that deal with inescapable legacies and inadequate fathers.
From entries on DJ Khaled and “Vietglish” to libraries and Tasmanian Tigers,hundreds of young people have made their voices heard.
The shortlist for The Age/Dymocks Essay Prize is officially in. Winners will be announced in late November.
The might be writing fiction,but the winners of this year’s ARA Historical Novel Prize also uphold a firm duty to the past and its characters.
The author also explains why paying attention is important for her craft.
Melissa Lucashenko must be the only Australian author to have won both the country’s top literary award and a mainstream TV quiz show.
“I am overwhelmed and somewhat frightened,said Fosse,who writes in the less common of the two official Norwegian languages.