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The Tasmania Book Prizes celebrate works published in the previous two years. In 2005 the inaugural Tasmania Prize was won by David Hansen's John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque.

As a reflection of the growing status and popularity of writing and publishing in Tasmania, a new suite of book prizes has now been established: the Tasmania Book Prize ($25,000), the Margaret Scott Prize ($5000), and the University of Tasmania Prize ($5000).

We wish the organisers well with this welcome addition to the Australian Literary Award collective. Hopefully, as the awards grow, the selected titles will become more widely available than is the case at present. When the 2009 winners are announced grab the books as quickly as you can as they are elusive. Thank goodness for libraries. More information can be found on the Arts Tasmania site.

It's all About Tasmania and that Includes the Apples for 2007 Tasmanian Book Prizes -

Tasmania Book Prize ($25,000)

For the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre.

in_tasmania_coverWinner:
- In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World, by Nicholas Shakespeare (right)(Knopf, 2004)

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island shakespeare_NICHOLAS with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chat wins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeare's. But what makes this more than a personal quest is Shakespeare's discovery that, despite the nineteen century purges, the Tasmanian Aborigines were not, as previously believed, entirely wiped out.


Shortlisted: The Art of Apple Branding: Australian Apple Case Labels and the Industry Since 1788, by Christopher Cowles and David Walker ........ Not currently available and at a list price of $194, it's only for the true faithful any way. Looks like a fabulous book though.


Short listed: The Line: a Man's Experience; a Son's Quest to Understand, by Arch and Martin Flanagan

Margaret Scott Prize
For the best book by a Tasmanian writer, worth $5000.

 

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Winner: Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev, by Robert Dessaix portrait below by Robert Hanford) (Picador, 2004)

Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leadingnovelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience.

dessaix_robertNo less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years, until the day he died, he was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot, following her and her husband around Europe and even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. What, then, did Turgenev mean by "love," the word at the core of his life and work?

Robert Dessaix has had his own forty-year relationship with Turgenev, first as a student of Russian in both Australia and Russia, then as a teacher, and now as what he calls a close friend. In Twilight of Love, Dessaix has come to see Turgenev's life and work as an expression of a turning point in the history of love—the moment the Romantic became rational, love unraveled into sentiment and erotic feelings, and eros became a mere commodity. In this truly remarkable work, Robert Dessaix has found the pulse that quickened Turgenev’s age, but has failed in ours.quarter_acre_cover

Shortlisted: Australia's Quarter Acre: The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden, by Peter Timms (The Miegunyah Press, 2006)- A spirited defense of the home garden, this fascinating study explains how Australia became the world's first great suburban nation, why Aussies are so passionate about roses and gladioli, how social and economic developments have altered the layouts of front and back gardens, and reasons for the slow decline of the manicured lawn and the productive home vegetable-garden. The designs, plantings, and hidden meanings of the ordinary garden are thoroughly explored, and the book offers unique new perspectives on everything from fruit trees and woodsheds to rotary clotheslines and illuminated Santas at Christmas.


tremors_coverShortlisted: Tremors, New & Selected Poems, by Andrew Sant (Black Pepper, 2004)

'Tremors, New and Selected Poems' is the distillation of Andrew Sant's poetry published over the last twenty-five years. Rhythmically engaging, with a passion for sensual observation, his poems shift readily from seriousness to wit, and whether about music, marine biology or Martian meteorites, they reveal a speculative, questing intelligence. Welcoming his recent shorter Selected in the United Kingdom, Christopher Reid wrote 'It's full of excellences - humane, highly intelligent, artistically delicious, witty, cliche.' His wide-ranging new poems explore fresh perceptual territories.

University of Tasmania Prize
For the best book by a Tasmanian publisher, worth $5000.

 

art_of_apple_branding_coverWinner:
-The Art of Apple Branding: Australian Apple Case Labels and the Industry Since 1788 by Christopher Cowles and David Walker (Apples from Oz, 2005)

Shortlisted
- An Imperial Disaster: the Wreck of George the Third, by Michael Roe (Blubber Head Press, 2006)
- The Companion to Tasmanian History, edited by Alison Alexander (Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, 2005)

note: Frustratingly, none of these titles seem to be available outside the state, hence the lack of detail. I have included some links to the publishers if you would like to try and get a copy- good luck....

2007 Tasmania Book Prizes Judges
Lindsay Broughton
Tim Cox
Catherine Schulz

2007 Tasmania Book Prizes Advisory Committee
Prof Ralph Crane, Chair
Angela Bourke
Tony Marshall
Norman Reaburn
Lynne Uptin

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