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TASMANIA PRIZE 2005 ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ SHORTLIST - 2005/03/04 12:40
Congratulations to the short-listed writers:
Richard Davey, The Sarah Island Conspiracies
Richard Davey, who has brought the era of the penal settlement alive in dramatic performance has now written its history. The Sarah Island Conspiracies is full of vibrant incident, organised in an imaginative and unusual narrative. Here an episode of the Tasmanian past less well known than it ought to be is brought vividly to life.
David Hansen, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
The great colonial artist John Glover came late to the island, but enriched and transformed its art as no one before or since. He is the subject of David Hansen's authoritative account, a book of redoubtable scholarship, handsomely and copiously illustrated. Hansen also curated the highly successful touring exhibition of Glover's paintings.
Michael Jacobson, Windmill Hill
Michael Jacobson's first novel, Windmill Hill, gave promise of a notable career to come (promise realised in his second novel, and another prize contender, Always East). This book is evocative of place; alert to the private pains and loneliness that people bear. It is written with clarity and compassion.
Donald Knowler, Dancing on the Edge of the World
A book about birds that also dissects the people who watch them, the places they frequent: this is Donald Knowler's Dancing on the Edge of the World. Written with wit, its knowledge lightly worn, it will make any reader delight in the excursions taken here, and look more attentively at the life around them.
Anthony Lawrence, The Sleep of a Learning Man
At a time when poetry in Tasmania has never been stronger, Anthony Lawrence is a leading figure, as his volume The Sleep of a Learning Man confirms. His poetry is absorbed by the natural world. It is also acutely occupied with the solitariness of individuals and how they seek to assuage it. This is verse of a distinguished order, from a writer at peak career.
Phillip Tardif, John Bowen‚Äö?Ñ?¥s Hobart
Phllip Tardif's John Bowen's Hobart is an exemplary work of popular history that reconstructs the first, troubled European settlement in Tasmania. The personalities in this venture, and especially Bowen, and the place where they struggled are imagined by a noted scholar, who has the gift of engrossing narrative.
Visit http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/projects/litprizes/tasmaniaprize.htm for more
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