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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.
Traces the harrowing 1629 shipwreck of nearly three hundred survivors on small islands off the coast of western Australia who found themselves at the mercy of a visionary psychopath and his team of supporters, a group that brutalized the survivors before eventually slaughtering them in an organized massacre. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Synopsis:
In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the western coast of the Australian continent. Most of the nearly three hundred men, women and children on board escaped from drowning only to become victims of a psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organized a methodical massacre of this hapless community. Acclaimed sinologist and author Simon Leys traveled to the site of the disaster and learned that, paradoxically, the natural environment of these islands could have afforded the survivors fairly decent living