Kathleen Mitchell Award
The Kathleen Mitchell Award is named after its founder Literature Prize , which since 1996 to young (under 30 years old) Australian awarded authors.
Its aim is to promote, elevate and improve Australian literature. It is awarded every two years by a three-person jury and started in 1996 with prize money of $ A 7,500. By 2012, the prize pool grew to $ A 15,000 and in 2014 it was increased to $ A 20,000. After no awards ceremony in 2016, it was awarded again in 2019 with $ 15,000 in prize money.
Award winners
- 2019: Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
- 2016: not awarded
- 2014: Majok Tulba , Beneath the Darkening Sky
- 2012: Melanie Joosten , Berlin Syndrome
- 2010: Nam Le , The Boat
- 2008: Randa Abdel-Fattah , Ten Things I Hate About Me
- 2006: Markus Zusak , The Book Thief (dt. The Book Thief )
- 2004: Lucy Lehmann , The Showgirl and the Brumby
- 2002: (not awarded)
- 2000: Julia Leigh , The Hunter
- 1998: James Bradley , wreck
- 1996: Sonya Hartnett , Sleeping Dogs (dt. Sleeping Dogs )
Web links
- Kathleen Mitchell Award , official website
- Kathleen Mitchell Award , official website (archive version from 2014)
Remarks
- ↑ In words of the foundation charter: the advancement, improvement and betterment of Australian literature, to improve the educational style of the authors, and to provide them with additional amounts and thus enable them to improve their literary efforts.
- ↑ Tulba wins $ 20,000 2014 Kathleen Mitchell Award . Books + Publishing, September 24, 2014
- ↑ Sheppard wins $ 15,000 Kathleen Mitchell Award; Dunk wins $ 15,000 Dal Stivens Award . Books + Publishing, May 29, 2019