Fed: Author labels calls Rudd a "dud" over literary prize

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2010
Fed: Author labels calls Rudd a "dud" over literary prize

Award-winning author ALEX MILLER says the 100 thousand dollars on offer for the Prime
Minister's Literary Award should be put towards the prestigious Miles Franklin prize.

MILLER's made the call after being short-listed for a third Miles Franklin award ..

worth 42 thousand dollars .. for his novel Lovesong.

He says the PM's prize created by the RUDD government is of little value .. gets no
publicity .. and will likely disappear under a new leader.

Other novels in the running for the 2010 Miles Franklin are SONYA HARTNETT's Butterfly
.. first-time novelist DEBORAH FORSTER's The Book of Emmett .. BRIAN CASTRO'S The Bath
Fugues .. CRAIG SILVEY'S Jasper Jones and PETER TEMPLE'S Truth.

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