The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are held annually. The NSW Government is committed to increasing public engagement with the arts. It is the entrant’s responsibility to determine which prize is most suitable for their work. Works that blend fiction and non-fiction may be entered in either the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction or the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction but not both. In such cases, no part of the prize money will be paid to the photographer or illustrator. An award will not be given for a work consisting principally of photographs or illustrations unless the text is of substantial length and of sufficient merit in its own right. Books compiled by an editor and/or consisting of contributions of more than four writers are not eligible for the Douglas Stewart Prize.
Oral histories are ineligible unless the author claims artistic responsibility for the majority of the text. The documentary heritage was inscribed onto the Australian Memory of the World register in 2019.The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000) is for a prose work other than a work of fiction.īooks including biographies, autobiographies and works of history, philosophy and literary criticism may be nominated provided they display literary qualities. With the creation of this character, Turner highlights the expectations of females in society at the turn of the century and challenges the gender stereotyping that was so prevalent in children’s fiction at that time. Judy is rebellious, independent, eloquent and for the most part responsible. Turner’s choice of a determined female protagonist, Judy Woolcot, provided generations of Australian girls with a role model to which they could aspire. It was also the first work of family fiction to portray Australian life in an authentically Australian voice. It was the first Australian children’s book to feature a girl as the hero, thus contributing to the foundation of girls’ literature in Australia. The story focuses on seven siblings growing up in Australia with an authoritarian father and a young, very busy stepmother. The novel Seven Little Australians was first published in 1894 and has been in print longer than any other Australian children’s book. The original 1893 manuscript is the tangible embodiment of Turner’s creative process.
Her best known work is her first novel, Seven Little Australians. Inscriptions on Asia-Pacific National RegistersĪchievements of women in history Stories from women's perspectiveĮthel Turner (1870 – 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. State Library of New South Wales, Corner of Macquarie Street and Shakespeare Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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