The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, from 2024 the South Australian Literary Awards, comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards include national as well as state-based prizes, and offer three fellowships for South Australian writers. Several categories have been added to the original four.
The Awards were created by the South Australian government in 1986. They are administered by the State Library of South Australia and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival. [1]
From 2024, the awards are renamed the South Australian Literary Awards. [2]
The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth A$25,000(equivalent to $27,644 in 2022), and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories. [3] Other national awards, worth A$15,000(equivalent to $16,853 in 2022) each as of 2018, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult Fiction Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and the Non-Fiction Award. South Australian awards and fellowships are the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award, the Arts South Australia/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, the Max Fatchen Fellowship and the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship. [1]
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Honours John Jefferson Bray (1912–1995), Chief Justice of South Australia, academic and poet for his distinguished services to Australian poetry. [9] Winners: [1]
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Formerly the Faulding Award for Multimedia (offered 1998 to 2004).
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