Melbourne writer André Dao, who penned a genre-defying account of his grandfather's remarkable life, is one of six winners at the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
As well as a writer, Dao is a research fellow at Melbourne Law School: "I spend my days reading and writing and thinking, which suits me pretty well."When Melbourne writer André Dao sat down to pen his grandfather's remarkable life story, he wasn't sure what form the story would take. Would it be a memoir, a romance, a spy novel or historical fiction?
Presented by Arts Minister Tony Burke at a ceremony at the National Library in Canberra, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards are administered by Creative Australia and feature six categories, with each winner receiving a tax-free prize of $80,000. "It's about marriage, war, time and separation. It's about the ways in which Anam melds memoir, essay and fiction. It's glorious, and so is everything that follows."
It's also a story of diaspora. Dao's family fled Vietnam to France and Australia at the end of the war, with his parents eventually reuniting in Melbourne, where Dao was born in 1988. "I see Anam in line with these new directions in Australian fiction, and winning feels like a recognition of that."Close to the Subject — winner of the $80,000 Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction — is a collection of Bundjalung and Kullilli journalist and writer Daniel Browning's poetry, memoir, art criticism and radio journalism, spanning two decades.
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