South Australian Premier's Awards
- South Australian Premier's Awards
The South Australian Premier's Awards (also known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) - were established in 1986. They are granted biennially to the judged-best authors in Australian children’s literature, fiction, innovation, non-fiction and poetry. The awards, which judge the best works published in Australia in the previous two years, are the nation’s most competitive literary awards (563 entries submitted for 2006).
The Premier’s Award recognises the most outstanding published book submitted to the awards.
2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
* South Australian Premier's Award for Literature: "" by John Tranter [ [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/cursed-by-memory-blessed-as-a-writer/2008/03/02/1204402272939.html "The Age"] ] ]
* Children's Literature: "Don't Call Me Ishmael" by Michael Gerard Bauer
* Fiction: "The Ballad of Desmond Kale" by Roger McDonald
* Innovation: "" by John Hughes
* Non-Fiction: "Sunrise West" by Jacob G Rosenberg
* John Bray Poetry Award: "" by John Tranter
* Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian Writer: "Merger - art, life and the other thing" by Duncan Graham
* Unpublished Manuscript by an SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: "The Second Fouling Mark" by Stephen Orr
* Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship: Steve Evans
* Carclew Fellowship: Roseanne Hawke 2006 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
* South Australian Premier's Award for Literature: "Sixty Lights" by Gail Jones [ [http://www.middlemiss.org/weblog/archives/matilda/2006/03/2006_adelaide_f_1.html "Matilda" weblog] ] ]
* Children's Literature: "It's Not All About You, Calma!" by Barry Jonsberg
* Fiction: "Sixty Lights" by Gail Jones
* Innovation: " 1-100" by M. T. C. Cronin
* Non-Fiction: "Velocity" by Mandy Sayer
* John Bray Poetry Award: "Totem" by Luke Davies
* Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian Writer: "This Uncharted Hour" by Finegan Kruckemeyer
* Unpublished Manuscript by an SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: "The Quakers" by Rachel Hennessy
* Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship: Mike Ladd
* Carclew Fellowship: Christine Harris See also
* List of Australian literary awards
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