Premio Letterario Margaret e Colin Roderick

Margaret and Colin Roderick Award
Assegnato al miglior libro pubblicato in Australia trattante un aspetto qualsiasi della vita australiana
Assegnato daUniversità James Cook
Intitolato aColin Roderick
PaeseAustralia (bandiera) Australia
Anno inizio1967
Sito webwww.jcu.edu.au/sass/humanities/fals/JCUPRD_036167.html

Il Premio Letterario Margaret e Colin Roderick (Margaret and Colin Roderick Award) è un riconoscimento assegnato annualmente al miglior libro pubblicato in Australia trattante un aspetto qualsiasi della vita australiana[1].

Istituito nel 1967[2], è amministrato dalla Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) dell'Università James Cook e riconosce al vincitore un premio di 50000 dollari australiani[3].

Prende il nome dal fondatore del riconoscimento, lo scrittore e accademico Colin Roderick (1911-2000)[4] e da sua moglie Margaret[5].

Albo d'oro

  • 1967: Douglas Stewart, "Collected Poems, 1936-1967"
  • 1968: Gavin Souter, "A Peculiar People"
  • 1969: Francis Webb, "Collected Poems"
  • 1970: Margaret Lawrie, "Myths and Legends of Torres Strait"
  • 1971: Geoffrey Serle, "The Rush to Be Rich"
  • 1972: Sir Keith Hancock, "Discovering Monaro"
  • 1973: Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, "Ulysses Bound: Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction"
  • 1974: David Malouf, "Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems"
  • 1975: Denis Murphy, "TJ Ryan"
  • 1976: Gavin Souter, "Lion and Kangaroo"
  • 1977: Alan Marshall, "The Complete Stories of Alan Marshall"
  • 1978: Leslie Rees, "History of Australian Drama"
  • 1979: Thea Astley, "Hunting the Wild Pineapple"
  • 1980: Allan Grocott, "Convicts, Clergymen and Churches"
  • 1981: Gavin Souter, "A Company of Heralds"
  • 1982: Geoffrey Serle, "John Monash: A Biography"
  • 1983: Dudley McCarthy, "Gallipoli to the Somme"
  • 1984: Alan Gould, "The Man Who Stayed Below"
  • 1985: John Gunn, "The Defeat of Distance: Qantas 1919-1939"
  • 1986: Fr Tom Boland, "James Duhig"
  • 1987: Nancy Phelan, "Home Is the Sailor and the Best of Intentions"
  • 1988: Peter Carey, "Oscar and Lucinda"
  • 1989: Chris Symons, "John Bishop: A Life for Music"
  • 1990: Roland Griffiths-Marsh, "Sixpenny Soldier"
  • 1991: Joan Dugdale, "Struggle of Memory"
  • 1992: Ruth Park, "A Fence Around the Cuckoo"
  • 1993: Cassandra Pybus, "Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered"
  • 1994: Patrick Buckridge, "The Scandalous Penton: A Biography of Brian Penton"
  • 1995: Judy Cassab, "Diaries"
  • 1996: Tim Flannery, Roger Martin, Alexandra Szalay e Peter Schouten, "Tree Kangaroos"
  • 1997: Peter Edwards, "A Nation at War"
  • 1998: Robert Dessaix, "And So Forth"
  • 1999: Christopher Koch, "Out of Ireland"
  • 2000: Peter Carey, "True History of the Kelly Gang"
  • 2001: Peter Rose, "Rose Boys"
  • 2002: Don Watson, "Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM"
  • 2003: Thomas Keneally, "The Tyrant's Novel"
  • 2004: Alan Wearne, "The Lovemakers" & Tim Winton, "The Turning"
  • 2005: Peter Temple, "The Broken Shore"
  • 2006: Deborah Robertson, "Careless"
  • 2007: Malcolm Knox, "Jamaica"
  • 2008: Graham Freudenberg, "Churchill and Australia" & James Boyce, "Van Diemen's Land"
  • 2009: Michael Cathcart, "The Water Dreamers"
  • 2010: Karen Kissane, "Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm"
  • 2011: Gillian Mears, "Foal's Bread"
  • 2012: Thomas Keneally, "The Daughters of Mars"
  • 2013: Ashley Hay, "The Railwayman's Wife" & Stephen Edgar, "Eldershaw"
  • 2014: Michael Wilding, "Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary"
  • 2015: Non assegnato
  • 2016: Gail Jones, "A Guide to Berlin"
  • 2017: Josephine Wilson, "Extinctions"
  • 2018: Jock Serong, "On the Java Ridge"
  • 2019: Robert Drewe, "The True Colour of the Sea"
  • 2020: Sally Young, "Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires"
  • 2021: Sofie Laguna, "Infinite Splendours"
  • 2022: Emily Bitto, "Wild Abandon"[6]
  • 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt, "The Jaguar"
  • 2024: Melissa Lucashenko, "Edenglassie"[7]
  • 2025: Khin Myint, "Fragile Creatures: A Memoir"[8]

Note

  1. ↑ (EN) Pagina ufficiale del premio, su jcu.edu.au. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  2. ↑ (EN) Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, su goodreadingmagazine.com.au, agosto 2023. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  3. ↑ (EN) Writers could win $50K in one of Australia’s largest literary awards, su townsvillebulletin.com.au, 17 ottobre 2023. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  4. ↑ (EN) Pagina dedicata allo scrittore, su austlit.edu.au. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  5. ↑ (EN) Jacques Leclaire, Obituary, su journals.openedition.org. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  6. ↑ (EN) Bitto wins 2022 Margaret and Colin Roderick Award, su booksandpublishing.com.au, 31 ottobre 2022. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  7. ↑ (EN) Kelly Burke, Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Edenglassie wins $150,000 in book prizes in just 24 hours, su theguardian.com, 23 ottobre 2024. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.
  8. ↑ (EN) Myint wins Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award; Hachette, EWF reveal Richell Prize longlist; Le Roy leaves Creative Australia, su booksandpublishing.com.au, 17 settembre 2025. URL consultato il 22 settembre 2025.

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