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Winner of the 2008 SA Premier's Award

Poet John Tranter has taken out the South Australian Premier's Award, announced as part of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Tranter was recognized for Urban Myths: 210 poems (UQP). The poetry collection also won the John Bray Poetry Award, giving Tranter $25,000 in total.
In the four other national categories, awards went to:

• Award for Children's Literature: Don't Call Me Ishmael (Michael Gerard Bauer, Scholastic)
• Award for Innovation: Someone Else: Fictional Essays (John Hughes, Giramondo)
• Award for Nonfiction Sunrise West (Jacob G Rosenberg, Brandl & Schlesinger)
• Award for Fiction: The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Roger McDonald, Random House)

In the state categories, awards went to:

• The Second Fouling Mark by Stephen Orr ($10,000 Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press)
• Steve Evans ($15,000 Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship)
• Rosanne Hawke ($15,000 Carclew Fellowship)

This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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