Writer, teacher and youth mentor Rawah Arja
Several literary talents fostered by Western Sydney University are among those shortlisted for this year’s prestigious NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
The authors recognised – Rawah Arja, Vivian Pham, Miro Bilbrough, Mariana Dimopulos and Norman Erikson Pasaribu – are students, alumni of the Writing and Society Research Centre, or authors published by the University-based Giramondo Publishing. The youngest, Vivian Pham, is completing a degree in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.
Western Sydney writer, teacher and youth mentor Rawah Arja was shortlisted for the Multicultural NSW Award and the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature for her debut novel, The F Team (Giramondo).
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Laura Jean McKay s pandemic fiction The Animals in That Country wins Victorian Premier s Literary Awards $100,000 top gong
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The Animals in That Country took five years of research and writing by Victorian-born writer Laura Jean McKay.
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Victorian author Laura Jean McKay has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier s Literary Awards with her debut novel, which imagines a viral pandemic in Australia that gives humans the ability to understand animals.