5/11/2023 0 Comments George goyder book collector![]() While Calvert and his crew could celebrate that they were the first submarine to surface at the North Pole, they were also there for a more personal reason: to honour a fellow submariner and visionary explorer who had attempted the same voyage before them. From here, 90 degrees north latitude, every direction was south. As Commander James Calvert looked out from the bridge through a howling gale into the dim twilight, he could barely see the featureless expanse of ice around him. With a sharp crack, the featureless expanse of ice suddenly fractured as a massive black steel pillar thrust its way through it, sending large blocks of ice tumbling over the long, humped hull of the nuclear submarine USS Skate. The first person to discover the Wilkins’s Bunting (or Wilkins’s Finch).The first person to film actual combat in progress from the ground and the air as a cinematographer and official war photographer.The first person to take a submarine to the Arctic ice cap.The first person to fly over Antarctica (with Eielson) in an aeroplane and to explore and map areas of that continent from the air.The first person to traverse the Arctic Circle, cross the Arctic Sea, and fly over the Arctic ice cap in an aeroplane (with pilot Carl Ben Eielson).The winners in each category will receive a cash prize of $5000, and the ceremony will also see three $15,000 Queensland Writers Fellowships presented, along with a new $10,000 Queensland Premier’s Young Writers Fellowship.Īs previously reported by Books+Publishing, the SLQ is running the awards for the first time in 2014, taking over from the volunteer-led QLAs, which were established in 2012 following the axing of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.įor more information on the awards and fellowships, visit the QLA website here.Sir Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer and photographer Firsts The Courier-Mail Queensland Book of the Year People’s Choice Award shortlist has already been announced. There is no shortlist for the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer and the winner will be announced at the ceremony. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 8 December. ‘We Come From Saltwater People’ by Cathy McLennan.‘3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death’ by Julie Kearney.Signal Flare (Anthony Lawrence, Puncher & Wattman)Įmerging Queensland author manuscript award.Devadatta’s Poems (Judith Beveridge, Giramondo).Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a poetry collection Holiday in Cambodia (Laura Jean McKay, Black Inc.).Only the Animals (Ceridwen Dovey, Penguin).An Elegant Young Man (Luke Carman, Giramondo).Letter to George Clooney (Debra Adelaide, Pan Macmillan).Steele Rudd Award for an Australian short story collection The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Clare Wright, Text).The Forgotten War (Henry Reynolds, New South).The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP).Smooch and Rose (Samantha Wheeler, UQP).The Rules of Summer (Shaun Tan, Hachette).Big Red Kangaroo (Claire Saxby, illus by Graham Byrne, Walker Books).The Ratcatchers Daughter (Pamela Rushby, HarperCollins).The Cracks in the Kingdom (Jaclyn Moriarty, Pan Macmillan).The Incredible Here and Now (Felicity Castagna, Giramondo).Nature’s Line: George Goyder-Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary (Janis Sheldrick, Wakefield Press). ![]()
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