Rothwell’s second novel collected the fiction prize with Willacy’s follow-up to his 2020 investigation Killing Field winning for non-fiction
Nicolas Rothwell’s novel Red Heaven has won the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary award for fiction.
Nicolas Rothwell’s novel Red Heaven is set mainly during the political upheaval of eastern Europe in the 1960s.Announced at a ceremony in Launceston on Tuesday, each category winner collected $80,000, adding to the $5,000 received by being shortlisted.
The Australia history prize went to New Zealand-born anthropologist Christine Helliwell for Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo.Four years in the making, Helliwell interviewed surviving Australian soldiers and more than 100 Dayak people, who risked their live to help Australian forces combat the Japenese during the second world war.
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