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A university professor’s detailed and lyrical meditations on the ever-changing waters of the Severn estuary tonight won him the UK’s most lucrative poetry prize against tough opposition.
Philip Gross is a well established poet but far from being a household name… Continue reading
Australian poet Robert Gray has become the first Eastern Suburbs resident to win the Waverley Library Award for his work “The Land I Came Through Last”.
The prize, had over 160 entries from all over Australia vying for the $20,000 prize money. Gray, who has won many awards for his seven poetry books, said the recognition Continue reading
Chinese writer Su Tong has won Asia’s top literary prize with a bleak novel about a disgraced Communist Party official’s attempts to rebuild his life, trumping a clutch of Indian writers on the shortlist.
Su’s novel, “The Boat to Redemption” is about a womanizing Party official who castrates himself after being banished to a river barge… Continue reading | 3 Comments
Australia’s premier literary prize has been awarded to Nam Le, says a Sydney Morning Herald report. The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction, which comes with a $100,000 purse, went to Le for The Boat.
According to the SMH, “The much-awarded debut collection of short stories by Le, 30, who came to Australia as a Vietnamese refugee, covers… Continue reading