The City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award is given biennially to a full-length manuscript of fiction or narrative non-fiction by a Western Australian author previously unpublished in book form. It is sponsored by the
City of Fremantle
The City of Fremantle is a local government area in the south of Perth, Western Australia. The City covers an area of , and lies about southwest of the Perth central business district.
History
The City of Fremantle is named after Charles Frem ...
,
Fremantle Press
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, Fremantle Library and ''
The West Australian
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First established in 1988, the award was set up to discover and develop new writers from
Western Australia
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who have not previously been published in book form.
In 2010 the prize money was doubled to $12,000.
As of 2018, the City of Fremantle pledged to support the award for a further six years. The prize money received by the winner will be $15,000 for the 2020, 2022 and 2024 award.
The winner receives a cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Many of the shortlisted writers also go on to be offered publishing contracts either by Fremantle Press or other publishing houses.
The Award is named in honour of
Tom Hungerford
Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford, AM (5 May 191519 June 2011) was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel '' The Ridge and the River'', and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Gre ...
, a prominent
Western Australian writer.
Award winners
* 1990:
Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker (born 1957 in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian writer. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English (on the work of Samuel Beckett) at the Australian National University ...
, ''Crush'' (1991)
* 1991:
Gail Jones, ''The House of Breathing'' (1992)
* 1993:
Simone Lazaroo, ''The World Waiting to be Made'' (1994)
* 1995:
Bruce Russell, ''Jacob's Air (''1996)
* 2000:
Christopher Murray, ''A Whispering of Fish'' (2001)
* 2002:
Nathan Hobby, ''
The Fur'' (2004)
* 2004:
Donna Mazza, ''The Albanian'' (2007)
* 2006:
Alice Nelson
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, "In Arcadia" published as ''The Last Sky'' (2010)
* 2008:
Natasha Lester, ''What is Left Over, After'' (2010)
* 2010:
Jacqueline Wright, Australian author, "The Telling" published as ''Red Dirt Talking'' (2012)
* 2012: Robert Edeson, ''The Weaver Fish'' (2014)
* 2014:
Madelaine Dickie, ''Troppo'' (2016)
*2016: Jay Martin, "Learning Polish" published as ''Vodka and Apple Juice'' (2018)
*2018:
Holden Sheppard, ''Invisible Boys'' (2019)
*2020: Maria Papas, "I Belong to the Lake" published as ''Skimming Stones'' (2021)
*2022: Molly Schmidt, "Salt River Road"
Shortlisted authors
* 2006:
Varnya Bromilow, Deb Fitzpatrick and Alice Nelson
*2008: Bill Powell, Karen Williams, Natasha Lester
*2010: Jacqueline Wright
*2012: Robert Edeson, Murray Jennings, Zoe Deleuil, Susan Sullivan, Martin Chambers, Vivien Stuart
*2014: Nicole Sinclair, Louise Allan, Madelaine Dickie, Mihaela Nicolescu, Portland Jones
*2016: Jay Martin, Catherine Gillard, Jodie Tesoriero, Tineke Van der Eecken, David Thomas Henry Wright
*2018: Yuot Alaak, Zoe Deleuil, Alan Fyfe, Holden Sheppard, Julie Sprigg, Trish Versteegen
*2020: Sharron Booth, Joanna Morrison, Maria Papas
*2022: Joy Kilian-Essert, Gerard McCann, Marie O’Rourke, Molly Schmidt
References
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External links
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First book awards
Culture of Western Australia
Awards established in 1990
Australian literary awards
Municipal awards
City of Fremantle
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