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25-450: The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial literary award , presented by Queen's University to plays by Canadian playwrights. The award was created in 1997, funded by a bequest to the university by the late playwright Herman Voaden . The competition awards a first prize of $ 3,000 and a second prize of $ 2,000. In addition to the cash prizes, both the first and second prize winners receive workshop productions of their play at

50-399: A corresponding award ceremony . Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as

75-624: Is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North . Flanagan was described by the Washington Post as "one of our greatest living novelists". "[C]onsidered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist , the New York Review of Books described Flanagan as "among

100-439: Is based on the life of William Buelow Gould , a convict artist, and tells the tale of his love affair with a young black woman in 1828. It won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize . Flanagan described these early novels as 'soul histories'. The Unknown Terrorist (2006), was described by The New York Times as "stunning ... a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world". Wanting (2008) tells two parallel stories: about

125-614: Is enigmatic and mesmerizing" while the New York Review of Books called it a "tour-de-force". The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020) about a woman caring for her dying mother during Australia's Black Summer of climate change induced wildfires, was described in a review for The Sydney Morning Herald as "a revelation and a triumph . . . astonishing". Robert Dixon's (ed.) Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays (2018) offers different perspectives on Flanagan's writing, while Joyce Carol Oates has written an overview of his novels for

150-586: The Bookseller /Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year , and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests , given to deliberately bad grammar There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage the writing from African American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence , which was established in 2007 by

175-740: The Baton Rouge Area Foundation , and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award , which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers. Australian author Richard Flanagan wrote a critique of literary awards, saying "National prizes are often a barometer of bourgeois bad taste." He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people. But hate, conceit and jealousy are no less human attributes than wisdom, judgment and knowledge." Book prizes will sometimes compete with one another, and these goals do not always coincide with anointing

200-561: The New York Review of Books . Flanagan has written on literature, the environment, art and politics for the Australian and international press including Le Monde , The Daily Telegraph (London), Suddeutsche Zeitung , The Monthly , The New York Times , and the New Yorker . Some of his writings have proved controversial. "The Selling-out of Tasmania", published after the death of former premier Jim Bacon in 2004,

225-660: The Orange Prize ). There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels . Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics ). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish ); the Camões Prize ( Portuguese ); the Booker Prize , The Writers' Prize ,

250-920: The Pulitzer Prize and the Hugo Award ( English ). Other international literary prizes include the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Franz Kafka Prize , and the Jerusalem Prize . The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English. Spoof awards include: The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award ,

275-833: The Thousand Islands Playhouse . Honourable mentions are also given. Prize winners have included Brian Drader 's The Norbals , Richard Sanger 's Two Words for Snow , Hiro Kanagawa 's Slants , Michael MacLennan 's Last Romantics and The Shooting Stage , Kent Stetson 's New Arcadia , Jason Hall 's Eyes Catch Fire , Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman 's Scratch , Kevin Loring 's Where the Blood Mixes , Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 's Gas Girls , Jordan Tannahill 's Late Company , David James Brock 's Wet , Norman Yeung 's Theory , and Michael Kras ' The Team . Literary award Most literary awards come with

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300-415: The Deep North (2013), about a Tasmanian doctor who becomes a Japanese prisoner of war, won the 2014 Man Booker Prize . First Person (2017), based loosely on his experience early in his writing career ghost-writing the autobiography of John Friedrich. The New Yorker noted "the novel, with its switchbacking recollections and cyclical dialogue, its penetrating scenes of birth and, eventually, death,

325-619: The Deep North is in production, directed by Justin Kurzel ( Snowtown , Macbeth , Nitram ) and starring Jacob Elordi ( Euphoria , Priscilla , Saltburn ). Flanagan is an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation , to which he donated his $ 40,000 prize money on winning the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Prize in 2014. A painting of Richard Flanagan by artist Geoffrey Dyer won

350-660: The Tasmanian Salmon Industry has been credited with lifting 'the veil on the Atlantic salmon industry's environmental and social malfeasances' and igniting popular opposition to the industry. In 2024, his book Question 7 won the GBP 50,000 (AUD 97,000) Baillie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction, making him the first author to win both the Booker and Baillie prizes. However Flanagan declared that he would not accept

375-464: The best winner. Sometimes juries can not decide between two contentious books so they will compromise with a third inoffensive bland book. He says there are now so many awards and prizes it has diluted the prestige of being a prize-winning book. Flanagan clarifies he is not against literary awards, but believes they should not be taken too seriously as a form of support for literary culture. Richard Flanagan Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961)

400-508: The building of Gunns' two billion dollar Bell Bay Pulp Mill . Cousins reprinted 50,000 copies of the essay for letterboxing in the electorates of Australia's environment minister and opposition environment spokesperson. Gunns subsequently collapsed with huge debt, its CEO John Gay found guilty of insider trading, and the pulp mill was never built. Flanagan's essay won the 2008 John Curtin Prize for Journalism. A collection of his non-fiction

425-478: The middle of the book's writing and it was published posthumously. Simon Caterson, writing in The Australian , described it as "one of the least reliable but most fascinating memoirs in the annals of Australian publishing". Flanagan's first novel, Death of a River Guide (1994), is the tale of Aljaz Cosini, a river guide, who lies drowning, reliving his life and the lives of his family and forebears. It

450-763: The most versatile writers in the English language". Flanagan was born in Longford , Tasmania , in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land during the Great Famine in Ireland . Flanagan's father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers is Australian rules football journalist Martin Flanagan . Flanagan

475-682: The novelist Charles Dickens in England, and Mathinna, an Aboriginal orphan adopted by Sir John Franklin , the colonial governor of Van Diemen's Land , and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin. As well as being a New Yorker Book of the Year and Observer Book of the Year , it won the Queensland Premier's Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Prize and the Tasmania Book Prize . The Narrow Road to

500-558: The prize money until Baillie Gifford indicate how they will decrease their association with fossil fuel and put more towards renewable energy. The 1998 film of The Sound of One Hand Clapping , written and directed by Flanagan, was nominated for the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin Film Festival . He worked with Baz Luhrmann as a writer on the 2008 film Australia . A major television series of The Narrow Road to

525-504: Was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Worcester College , Oxford , where he earned the degree of Master of Letters in History . Flanagan wrote four non-fiction works before moving to fiction, works that he called "his apprenticeship". One of these was Codename Iago , an autobiography of Australian con man John Friedrich , which Flanagan ghostwrote in six weeks to make money to write his first novel. Friedrich killed himself in

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550-560: Was born with severe hearing loss, which was corrected when he was six years old. He grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast. Flanagan left school at the age of 16 but returned to study at the University of Tasmania , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours . Flanagan was president of the Tasmania University Union in 1983. The following year, he

575-655: Was critical of the Bacon government's relationship with corporate interests in the state. Premier Paul Lennon declared, "Richard Flanagan and his fictions are not welcome in the new Tasmania". Flanagan's 2007 essay on logging company Gunns, then the biggest hardwood woodchipper in the world, "Gunns. Out of Control" in The Monthly , first published as "Paradise Razed" in The Telegraph (London), inspired Sydney businessman Geoffrey Cousins' high-profile campaign to stop

600-504: Was described by The Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing". The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), tells the story of Slovenian immigrants and was a major bestseller, selling more than 150,000 copies in Australia. Flanagan's first two novels, declared Kirkus Reviews , "rank with the finest fiction out of Australia since the heyday of Patrick White ". Gould's Book of Fish (2001)

625-566: Was published as And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (2011). In 2015 he published Notes on an Exodus , on the Syrian refugee crisis, arising out of visiting refugee camps in Lebanon, Greece, and meeting refugees in Serbia. The book also features sketches made by the noted Australian artist Ben Quilty , who travelled with Flanagan to meet the refugees. His 2021 book Toxic. The Rotting Underbelly of

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