The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia. The rules of the competition include that the winner's work be published by Allen and Unwin.[1]
The award was initiated in 1979 by Niels Stevns[1] and is a collaboration between The Australian newspaper, the publisher Allen & Unwin, and Stevns & Company Pty Ltd. Stevns, founder of the company which makes Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel.
Winners
- 2014 - Christine Piper, After Darkness
- 2013 - No prize awarded
- 2012 - Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons
- 2011 - Rohan Wilson, The Roving Party
- 2009 - Kristel Thornell, Night Street and Lisa Lang, Utopian Man
- 2008 - Andrew Croome, Document Z
- 2007 - Stefan Laszczuk, I Dream of Magda
- 2006 - Belinda Castles, The River Baptists
- 2005 - Andrew O'Connor, Tuvalu
- 2004 - Julienne van Loon, Road Story
- 2003 - Nicholas Angel, Drown Them in the Sea and Ruth Balint, Troubled Waters
- 2002 - Danielle Wood, The Alphabet of Light and Dark
- 2001 - Sarah Hay, Skins and Catherine Padmore, Sibyl's Cave
- 2000 - Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
- 1999 - Hsu-Ming Teo, Love and Vertigo
- 1998 - Jennifer Kremmer, Pegasus in the Suburbs
- 1997 - Eva Sallis, Hiam
- 1996 - Bernard Cohen, The Blindman's Hat
- 1995 - Richard King, Kindling Does For Firewood
- 1994 - Darren Williams, Swimming In Silk
- 1993 - Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed the Paper
- 1992 - Fotini Epanomitis, The Mule's Foal
- 1991 - Andrew McGahan, Praise
- 1990 - Gillian Mears, The Mint Lawn
- 1989 - Mandy Sayer, Mood Indigo
- 1988 - Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
- 1987 - Jim Sakkas, Ilias
- 1986 - Robin Walton, Glace Fruits
- 1985 - No prize awarded
- 1984 - Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story
- 1983 - Jenny Summerville, Shields Of Trell
- 1982 - Brian Castro, Birds of Passage and Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
- 1981 - Chris Matthews, Al Jazzar and Tim Winton, An Open Swimmer
- 1980 - Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog (Weller was initially runner-up to Paul Radley, who was disqualified after admitting that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle, who was also older than 35.[2])
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goodwin (1986) p. 270
- ↑ [1] Lists of Bests, winners of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, website accessed 5 November 2006
References
- Goodwin, Ken (1986) A History of Australian Literature, Basingstoke, Macmillan
- The History of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (Allen & Unwin)
