Since I’ve started paying attention to the awards available to writers – particularly Australian novelists, because it’s good to have dreams of what I could achieve one day! – I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see that some very good writers are getting decent amounts of money to reward their achievements in creating great literature. Of course, I’m aware that most great writers don’t earn anywhere near as much as they should, but I’d somehow thought that the situation was absolutely dire and nobody got anything. But if you check my …