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Indigenous author Bruce Pascoe receives Lifetime Achievement in Literature award

Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature’. Pascoe has published more than 20 adult and children’s titles, including Ocean (Seaglass Books); Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country (Aboriginal Studies Press); Fog a Dox (Magabala); and Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture Or Accident? (Magabala). Pascoe won Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for Dark Emu, which was also shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.

The Australia Council Awards annually recognise outstanding and sustained contributions by Australian artists in music, literature, community arts and cultural development (CACD), emerging and experimental arts, visual arts, theatre and dance.

The winners of the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced at a ceremony on 3 March.

Among the winners in the adult categories were: Premier’s Award, The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text); Fiction, The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text); Nonfiction, The Boy Behind the Curtain (Tim Winton, Penguin); John Bray Poetry Award, Missing Up (Pam Brown, Vagabond Press); and Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, ‘A New Name for the Colour Blue’ (Annette Marner). The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are presented biennially by the South Australian government.

 

Category: Think Australian awards