For the second time, Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg has won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Laurence Billiet is a writer, producer and director whose documentary Freeman was the most watched documentary of 2020. She has an extensive background in storytelling the world over, worked for organisations such as Lonely Planet, Elite Models, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, recently she staged large-scale fashion and music events across China and Europe for which she experimented with giant screens video .With her production company General Strike, Laurence combines her experience across narrative content and form to create new kinds of screen-based experiences. Her latest feature film, THE GIANTS details the extraordinary life of Bob Brown intertwined with the story of Australia's giant trees. She is the recipient of the Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at the 2021 NSW Premier Literary Awards.
Dylan Van Den Berg… won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.
CANBERRAâS Dylan Van Den Berg took out the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for “Milk” at the NSW Premierâs Literary Awards yesterday (April 26).
Van Den Berg accepted the award at the State Library of NSW, where a total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prizes.
Van Den Bergâs win was announced alongside people such as Ellen van Neerven, who won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year, and Kate Grenville, who won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
The third was Van Den Bergâs win.