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T.A.G. Hungerford Award

The City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award is given biennially to a full-length manuscript of fiction or narrative non-fiction by a Western Australian author previously unpublished in book form. It is sponsored by the City of Fremantle, Fremantle Press, Fremantle Library and The West Australian.

Award winners
• 1990: Brenda Walker, Crush (1991) • 1991: Gail Jones, The House of Breathing (1992) • 1993: Simone Lazaroo, The World Waiting to be Made (1994) • 1995: Bruce Russell, ''Jacob's Air (''1996) • 2000: Christopher Murray, A Whispering of Fish (2001) • 2002: Nathan Hobby, The Fur (2004) • 2004: Donna Mazza, The Albanian (2007) • 2006: Alice Nelson, "In Arcadia" published as The Last Sky (2010) • 2008: Natasha Lester, What is Left Over, After (2010) • 2010: Jacqueline Wright, Australian author, "The Telling" published as Red Dirt Talking (2012) • 2012: Robert Edeson, The Weaver Fish (2014) • 2014: Madelaine Dickie, Troppo (2016) • 2016: Jay Martin, "Learning Polish" published as Vodka and Apple Juice (2018) • 2018: Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys (2019) • 2020: Maria Papas, "I Belong to the Lake" published as Skimming Stones (2021) • 2024: Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope (written in English and Amharic) ==Shortlisted authors==
Shortlisted authors
• 2006: Varnya Bromilow, Deb Fitzpatrick and Alice Nelson • 2008: Bill Powell, Karen Williams, Natasha Lester • 2010: Jacqueline Wright • 2012: Robert Edeson, Murray Jennings, Zoe Deleuil, Susan Sullivan, Martin Chambers, Vivien Stuart • 2014: Nicole Sinclair, Louise Allan, Madelaine Dickie, Mihaela Nicolescu, Portland Jones • 2016: Jay Martin, Catherine Gillard, Jodie Tesoriero, Tineke Van der Eecken, David Thomas Henry Wright • 2018: Yuot Alaak, Zoe Deleuil, Alan Fyfe, Holden Sheppard, Julie Sprigg, Trish Versteegen • 2020: Sharron Booth, Joanna Morrison, Maria Papas • 2022: Joy Kilian-Essert, Gerard McCann, Marie O’Rourke, Molly Schmidt • 2024: Howard McKenzie-Murray, Jodie Tes, Fiona Wilkes, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes ==References==
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