Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards Winners 2016
Congratulations to the winners of the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for 2016: Lucy Treloar and Fiona Wright!
The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or non-fiction classifiable as ‘life writing’.
Lucy Treloar has received the $5,000 Dobbie Literary Award (for a first-time author) for her debut novel, Salt Creek.
Set in 1855, Stanton Finch and his family have fallen on hard times and relocated to Salt Creek – a remote, beautiful coastal region in the new province of South Australia. Formerly wealthy political activists, the Finch family struggle to make a life for themselves, and their actions have devastating repercussions for the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed in their arrival.
Carlton Assistant Shop Manager Sharon Peterson says, ‘The characters remain in the mind long after reading the final pages.’
Fiona Wright has received the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award (for an established author) for her essay collection, Small Acts of Disappearance.
The 10 essays collected in Small Acts of Disappearance examine the shape of hunger. Wright writes honestly and movingly of her own struggles with anorexia, and her language is piercing in its precision, many other themes – literature, travel, displacement – and her collection is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the evolution of the essay form.
Marketing Manager Nina Kenwood says, ‘I loved this book. Wright is an exceptionally talented writer. Her work is full of empathy and it provides deep insight into an enormously complex disease.’
You can find the full 2016 shortlist here, or find out more about the awards here.
