ALEP Learning Guides / Aboriginal Landcare Education Program

Madelaine Dickie spent a year living among the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. She was on a Prime Minister¿s Australia Asia Endeavour Award to finish her first novel, and conducted research at Universitas Padjadjaran and Universitas Islam Bandung. She has won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript Troppo.

Dickie received a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Her manuscript was selected from 61 entries by a panel of judges that included Delys Bird, Susan Midalia, Richard Rossiter and Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter. The T.A.G. Hungerford Award recognises an unpublished work of fiction or creative nonfiction by a West Australian author who has not previously published a work of fiction in book form.

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