''The Low Road'' is a 2007
Ned Kelly Award
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewar ...
-winning novel by the Australian author
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley (born 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian author of crime fiction, short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India, South-East Asia, South America, Nort ...
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Awards
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Victorian Premier's Literary Award
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary p ...
, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted
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Ned Kelly Awards
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ...
for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner
Notes
*Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled."
*Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, ''On the Universe''.
*Epigraph:
::"And what the dead had no speech for, when living
::They can tell you, being dead: the communication
::Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, ''Little Gidding''.
Reviews
*"The Age
*"The Australian
*"Australian Crime Fiction Database
*"First Tuesday Book Club
*"Readings
Australian crime novels
2007 Australian novels
Ned Kelly Award-winning works
Scribe (publisher) books
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