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Lindach's Blog – June 2010 Archive (2)

Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award 2010

Peter Temple has been awarded the highly acclaimed 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Truth.

Temple had to fight off stiff competition from five other authors, including Deborah Forster, Sonya Hartnett and Alex Miller, to win the $42,000 prize, presented at an award dinner on Tuesday 22 June in Sydney.

The Miles Franklin literary award is recognised as…

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Added by Lindach on June 23, 2010 at 17:33 — No Comments

Article by John Birmingham

John Birmingham who is visiting Mosman Library on 5 July to discuss his latest book " After America" has written an interesting article about female action heroes in literature. Here's the link:…

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Added by Lindach on June 11, 2010 at 15:04 — No Comments