Australia-Asia Literary Award

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Australia-Asia Literary Award

The Australia-Asia Literary Award is currently under review.

For more information contact Manager Projects at the Department of Culture and the Arts, Ms Lyndsay Feltham by calling +61 8 9224 7300, 1800 199 090 (Country WA) or email lyndsay.feltham@dca.wa.gov.au

David Malouf was awarded  the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award for ‘The Complete Stories’ on November 21, 2008 .

Chair of the Australia-Asia Literary Award judging panel Nury Vittachi said: “The Complete Stories is a rich feast of subtle tales which sum up the intense joys and sadnesses that fill even the most ordinary lives - we were all moved by this fine collection."

This ground-breaking award is for a book-length work of literary fiction written by an author resident in Australia or Asia, or a work primarily set in Australia or an Asian country. Works must have been either written in, or translated into, English and published in the preceding year.

Recognising the increasing predominance of electronic media and to emphasise the Award’s focus on literary merit, no matter what the format; the Award was open to any book-length work of literary fiction published either electronically or in print.

Entries for the Award closed on May 31, 2008. 

Australia-Asia Literary Award Shortlist

  • Michelle DE KRETSER    The Lost Dog     Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Mohsin HAMID    The Reluctant Fundamentalist    Publisher: Penguin
  • David MALOUF      The Complete Stories      Publisher: Random House
  • Ceridwen DOVEY  Blood Kin    Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Janette TURNER HOSPITAL   Orpheus Lost     Publisher: HarperCollins

Australia-Asia Literary Award Longlist

  • J.M. COETZEE       Diary of a Bad Year        Publisher: Random House Group Ltd
  • Matthew CONDON     The Trout Opera    Publisher: Random House (Vintage)
  • Michelle DE KRETSER    The Lost Dog     Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Ceridwen DOVEY  Blood Kin    Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Rodney HALL  Love without Hope    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Mohsin HAMID    The Reluctant Fundamentalist    Publisher: Penguin
  • Mireille JUCHAU      Burning In       Giramondo Publishing
  • David MALOUF      The Complete Stories      Publisher: Random House
  • Alex MILLER     Landscape of Farewell     Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Haruki MURAKAMI    After Dark       Translator: Jay Rubin      Publisher: Random House Group
  • Indra SINHA     Animal’s People    Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
  • Janette TURNER HOSPITAL   Orpheus Lost     Publisher: HarperCollins
 
For more information about the Australia-Asia Literary Award or the Western Australian  Premier's Book Award please read the Minister's media statements or contact Corporate Affairs.

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