The playwright’s adaptation of The Drover’s Wife will soon tour nationally and abroad, and may become a TV series – with a film already in the works
The Indigenous Australian playwright, actor and musician Leah Purcell has won $40,000 at the NSW premier’s literary awards, taking out two major prizes for her radical reimagining of Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife – the same work that won Purcell the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature in January.
Other major winners include Heather Rose, who won the $40,000 prize for fiction for her Stella prize-winning novel The Museum of Modern Love; Thornton McCamish, who won the $40,000 non-fiction prize for his biography of celebrated correspondent Alan Moorehead; and Peter Boyle, who won the $30,000 poetry prize for Ghostspeaking.
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