Mary Anne Butler
Australian playwright
Mary Anne Butler is an Australian playwright living in Darwin in the Northern Territory.[1]
In 2016 she won the $100,000 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for literature for her play Broken. It was the first time a script had won the award.[2] Broken also won a Northern Territory Literary Award for best playscript in 2014.[3]
In June 2014, Butler was awarded a Churchill Fellowship "to further develop contemporary playwrighting skills" in Dublin, Ireland.[4]
Bibliography
- 2014 - Broken
- 2014 - Highway of Lost Hearts
- 2012 - Hopetown
- 2010 - Dragons
- 2009 - Half Way There
References
- ^ "News – Working with Words: Mary Anne Butler". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ Steger, Jason (29 January 2016). "Playwright Mary Anne Butler wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ^ Blake, Elissa (2 August 2016). "Mary Anne Butler puts Northern Territory theatre on the map with Broken". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ "Mary Anne Butler". Churchill Trust.
External links
- Official website
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Recipients of the Victorian Prize for Literature
- 2011: Kim Scott (That Deadman Dance)
- 2012: Bill Gammage (The Biggest Estate on Earth)
- 2013: no award
- 2014: Jennifer Maiden (Liquid Nitrogen)
- 2015: Alan Atkinson (The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three)
- 2016: Mary Anne Butler (Broken)
- 2017: Leah Purcell (The Drover's Wife)
- 2018: Sarah Krasnostein (The Trauma Cleaner)
- 2019: Behrouz Boochani (No Friend But the Mountains)
- 2020: S. Shakthidharan with Eamon Flack (Counting and Cracking)
- 2021: Laura Jean McKay (The Animals in That Country)
- 2022: Veronica Gorrie (Black and Blue)
- 2023: Jessica Au (Cold Enough for Snow)
- 2024: Grace Yee (Chinese Fish)
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