2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Follow-up

As a follow-up to yesterday's post regarding the winners of the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards "The Courier-Mail" interviews poetry, and book of the year winner, Sam Wagan Watson, who hails from Brisbane. "The Sydney Morning Herald" provides more of an overview of all the major winners, which is hardly surprising.

Currently Reading

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

Recently Read

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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