The Australia Council's annual accolade for writers over 65, the $50,000 writers' emeritus award, will be shared by Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane.
The Australia Council's annual accolade for writers over 65, the $50,000 writers' emeritus award, will be shared by Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane.
Koch is a two-time winner of the Miles Franklin literary award, while Murnane won the Patrick White literary award in 1999.
Literature board chair Imre Salusinszky paid tribute to both novelists for ‘chang(ing) the face of Australian writing through the breadth of their respective imaginations.'
‘Each of their works is characterised by a uniquely Australian perspective on the world.'
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