More awards: Christina Stead prize worth A$40,000
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 posts on awards, there are a few writers - even Australians! - who are getting a decent bonus now and again.
So here’s another one: over in Sydney they announced the New South Wales Premier’s literary awards this week, including $40,000 for the Christina Stead prize for fiction. The winner of this, Michelle de Kretser, got another $10,000 for winning Book of the Year too, with another book that’s had to be added to my long reading wish list, The Lost Dog
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