The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award was an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money AUD$20,000, was the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia. Allen & Unwin guaranteed to publish the winning work. [1]

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History

The award had been initiated in 1979 by Niels Stevns [1] and was a collaboration between The Australian newspaper, the publisher Allen & Unwin, and Stevns & Company Pty Ltd. Stevns, founder of the company which made Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel.

The Vogel was not awarded in 1985, 2013, and 2019. [2]

The last award was presented in June 2024. [3]

The Australian Fiction Prize

The Vogel Prize was replaced by The Australian Fiction Prize by The Australian newspaper in partnership with publisher HarperCollins. [2] [4] The new prize is for an unpublished manuscript–excluding science fiction, young adult, poetry, plays, works for children–of between 75,000 and 100,000 words, and the prize continues at $20,000, plus a $15,000 advance from the publisher, HarperCollins, who will publish the work; there is now no age limit on the entrant, but the entrant must an Australian resident. Submissions in the prize's first year opened on 6 May 2024 and closed on 2 August 2024. [5] The judges are Caroline Overington, literary editor of The Australian; book critic and literary agent Samuel Bernard; and bookseller Letitia Davy of Gleebooks. [6]

Vogel winners

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References

  1. 1 2 Goodwin, Ken (1986). A History of Australian Literature. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 270. ISBN   9780333364055.
  2. 1 2 Austlit. "The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "Allen & Unwin - Australia". www.allenandunwin.com. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  4. ↑ Caroline Overington (4 April 2024). "A new chapter as The Australian launches a new literary prize" . The Australian . Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  5. ↑ "The Australian Fiction Prize – Frequently Asked Questions". HarperCollins . Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  6. ↑ Caroline Overington (19 July 2024). "How to enter The Australian Fiction Prize". The Australian . Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1980"". AustLit . Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1981". AustLit. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1982". AustLit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1983". AustLit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "The Australian/Vogel Award 1984–87"". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  12. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 1988–90". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  13. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 1991–93". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  14. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 1994–96". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  15. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 1997–99". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  16. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 2000–2002". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  17. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 2003–2005". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  18. 1 2 3 "The Australian/Vogel Award 2006–2008". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  19. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel Award 2009–2012". AustLit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  20. ↑ "A&U: Changes to the Vogel award". Books+Publishing . 8 June 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  21. 1 2 3 "No Vogel Award to be presented in 2013". Books+Publishing. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  22. ↑ "Piper wins Vogel for After Darkness". Books+Publishing. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  23. ↑ "Middleton wins 2015 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  24. ↑ "Brabon wins 2016 Vogel Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  25. ↑ "Peričić wins Vogel for The Lost Pages". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  26. ↑ "O'Grady wins Vogel for The Yellow House". Books+Publishing. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  27. ↑ "No Vogel to be awarded this year". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  28. ↑ "A Treacherous Country wins 2020 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  29. ↑ Steger, Jason (30 April 2021). "How truth and fiction won Emma Batchelor this year's Vogel Award". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  30. ↑ "A Place Near Eden wins 2022 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  31. ↑ "Immaculate wins 2023 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  32. ↑ "The Australian/Vogel's Award for Young Writers". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
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