Kathleen Mitchell Award
The Kathleen Mitchell Award is named after its founder Literature Prize, which is awarded to writers since 1996 Australian young ( under 30 years old ).
Its aim is to promote, increase and improve the Australian literature. It is awarded every two years by a jury of three and is endowed with $ A 15,000 since 2012.
Award winners
- 2012 Melanie Joosten, Berlin Syndrome
- 2010: Nam Le, The Boat
- 2008: Randa Abdel- Fattah, Ten Things I Hate About Me
- 2006: Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (Eng. The Book Thief )
- 2004: Lucy Lehmann, The Showgirl and the Brumby
- 2002: (not awarded )
- 2000: Julia Leigh, The Hunter
- 1998: James Bradley, wreck
- 1996: Sonya Hartnett, Sleeping Dogs (Eng. Sleeping Dogs )