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Ian Johnston wins translation prize

Ian Johnston wins NSW Premier's Translation Prize & PEN Medallion ($30,000)

Ian Johnston was awarded $30,000 and PEN Medallion as winner of the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize, announced on Monday 16 May 2011. Tasmania's Pardalote Press is the publisher of his books, Waiting for the Owl and Singing of Scented Grass .

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Kay Ryan's new laurels

Ne w Laurels for the 16th Laureate

Kay Ryan, the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States (2008-2010), has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Read more about Kay Ryan here

You can watch Kay Ryan, reading her own poetry at the National Book Festival,  here .

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Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez’s reading at the Republic Readings in Tasmania earlier this year was a knock-out. So, here’s a treat for her fans. Ivy Alvarez’s poem ‘Curing the animal’, which can be read here , published in Cordite Poetry Review , was included in Best Australian Poems 2009 (ed. Robert Adamson ).

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