The Miles Franklin Award Winner, Author Anna Funder Talks About New Queensland Premier Campbell Newman's Scrapping Of The Premier's Literary Awards To Save $244,475.00.
2012 is also the Australian National Year of Reading.
Historically, the Premier's Literary Award winners are put in front of young readers to encourage reading.
It would have been a throwaway comment except for the fact that Anna Funder is also the author of "Stasiland" ([ Ссылка ]).
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