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[Ruth Park]Ruth Park: A Celebration

Awards

1946 The Harp in the South judged Best Novel in the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald competition
1954 Serpent's Delight selected as Catholic Book Club Choice
1961 British award for television play with D'Arcy Niland 'No Decision' in the inaugural Commonwealth Television Play Competition run by the Lew Grade Organisation
1962 The Hole in the Hill highly commended in the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards
1975 Callie's Castle highly commended in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards
1977 Swords and Crowns and Rings won the Miles Franklin Award
1977 Swords and Crowns and Rings highly commended by the National Book Council
1979 Come Danger, Come Darkness highly commended in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards
1981 Playing Beatie Bow won the CBCA Book of the Year Award
1981 When the Wind Changed won the Children's Book Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards
1982 Playing Beatie Bow won the Parents' Choice Award for Literature, awarded by the Parents' Choice Foundation
1982 Playing Beatie Bow won the Boston Globe-Horn (USA) Book Award for fiction
1982 Playing Beatie Bow won the International Board on Books for Young People (Australia) Honour Diploma
1982 Playing Beatie Bow was the runner up for the Guardian Prize (UK)
1986 When the Wind Changed, illustrated by Deborah Niland, Young Australians' Best Book Award for a picture book
1987 Ruth Park made a Member of the Order of Australia
1992 A Fence around the Cuckoo won the Age Book of the Year Award for non-fiction
1992 A Fence around the Cuckoo won the Colin Roderick Award, presented with the H.T. Priestley Medal (Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award)
1993 A Fence around the Cuckoo won the Tilly Aston Award for Braille Book of the Year
1993 A Fence around the Cuckoo won the Talking Book of the Year Award (Royal Blind Society)
1993 Fishing in the Styx won the Talking Book of the Year Award (Royal Blind Society)
1993 Awarded the Lloyd O'Neil Magpie Award for services to the Australian book industry
1994 Playing Beatie Bow won the COOL (Canberra's Own Outstanding List) Award
1994 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of New South Wales
1994 Home Before Dark won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award

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