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Australian Writer Re-appointed to Literature Board

The Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, today announced the re-appointment of the writer, Alan Gould to the Australia Council for the Arts’ Literature Board.

“Mr Gould has made a significant contribution to Australian literature for many years,” Senator Kemp said.

“I am very pleased that he has agreed to continue as a member on the Literature Board for another 12 months.”

Alan Gould is a poet, novelist and essayist. He won the National Book Council Banjo Award for fiction in 1992, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature in 1999, and was co-winner of the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award in 2001.

The Literature Board aims to support the excellence, diversity, vitality and distinctiveness of Australian literature by providing direct financial support to outstanding literary creators, and grants to organisations which offer infrastructure support to the sector and income-generating opportunities to writers.

The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s principal arts funding and advisory body. It encourages the creativity and development of Australian artists and aims to increase access by all Australians to arts and cultural activities.

Canberra
13 December 2005
Media contact: Michael Christo, Minister’s Office 03 9650 7274 or 0409 040276