Clive James given special award

IT has been quite a year for indigenous artists and writers.

And the latest winner is Kim Scott, the West Australian Aboriginal writer, who on Friday won a combined $50,000 for two NSW Premier's Literary awards for his novel, That Deadman Dance.

He received $40,000 for the Christina Stead Prize and $10,000 for Book of the Year.

Set on the WA coast at the start of the 19th century, That Deadman Dance is a story of early encounters between Noongar people and European settlers.

The judges said the book is "peopled with a broad cast of compelling, complex characters" and a "work of astounding beauty".

Thirty-three judges read hundreds of nominations for the nine literary awards and five history awards, with a collective value of about $360,000 in prize money.

Expat writer, journalist and commentator Clive James CBE AM was awarded the Special Award worth $10,000.

This award, given under exceptional circumstances, isn't open to entry and can't be awarded to a work that has been submitted to the awards.

James, 73, who has leukaemia, was a member of the Aussie "Push" who went to London in the early 1960s and included feminist Germaine Greer.

He was Britain's leading TV critic, for The Observer from 1972 to 1982, and later became well known for programs including Clive James on Television and The Clive James Show, as well as documentaries.

The first volume of his autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, is his best known book.

In June, James said he was "getting near the end" after several years of illness.

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said recognising James's achievements in this way was a "fitting tribute to a great Australian writer and a great son of Sydney".

He said James had had an "extraordinarily prolific and successful career" and has "pioneered and championed the idea of an internationalised Australian culture through his poetry, novels, memoirs, works of literary criticism and scriptwriting".

Writer Gail Jones was awarded the People's Choice Award for Five Bells, a novel set in Circular Quay, Sydney, one sparkling summer's day.

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