The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia. The rules of the competition include that the winner's work be published by Allen and Unwin.[1]
The award was initiated in 1979 by Niels Stevns[1] and is a collaboration between The Australian newspaper, the publisher Allen & Unwin, and Stevns & Company Pty Ltd. Stevns, founder of the company which makes Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel.
Winners
- 2016 – Katherine Brabon, The Memory Artist
- 2015 – Murray Middleton, When There’s Nowhere Else to Run
- 2014 – Christine Piper, After Darkness
- 2013 – No prize awarded
- 2012 – Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons
- 2011 – Rohan Wilson, The Roving Party
- 2009 – Kristel Thornell, Night Street and Lisa Lang, Utopian Man
- 2008 – Andrew Croome, Document Z
- 2007 – Stefan Laszczuk, I Dream of Magda
- 2006 – Belinda Castles, The River Baptists
- 2005 – Andrew O'Connor, Tuvalu
- 2004 – Julienne van Loon, Road Story
- 2003 – Nicholas Angel, Drown Them in the Sea and Ruth Balint, Troubled Waters
- 2002 – Danielle Wood, The Alphabet of Light and Dark
- 2001 – Sarah Hay, Skins and Catherine Padmore, Sibyl's Cave
- 2000 – Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
- 1999 – Hsu-Ming Teo, Love and Vertigo
- 1998 – Jennifer Kremmer, Pegasus in the Suburbs
- 1997 – Eva Sallis, Hiam
- 1996 – Bernard Cohen, The Blindman's Hat
- 1995 – Richard King, Kindling Does For Firewood
- 1994 – Darren Williams, Swimming In Silk
- 1993 – Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed the Paper
- 1992 – Fotini Epanomitis, The Mule's Foal
- 1991 – Andrew McGahan, Praise
- 1990 – Gillian Mears, The Mint Lawn
- 1989 – Mandy Sayer, Mood Indigo
- 1988 – Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
- 1987 – Jim Sakkas, Ilias
- 1986 – Robin Walton, Glace Fruits
- 1985 – No prize awarded
- 1984 – Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story
- 1983 – Jenny Summerville, Shields Of Trell
- 1982 – Brian Castro, Birds of Passage and Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
- 1981 – Chris Matthews, Al Jazzar and Tim Winton, An Open Swimmer
- 1980 – Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog (Weller was initially runner-up to Paul Radley, who was disqualified after admitting that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle, who was also older than 35.[2])
Notes
References
- Goodwin, Ken (1986) A History of Australian Literature, Basingstoke, Macmillan
- The History of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (Allen & Unwin)