Indigenous playwright and actor takes top honour at Victorian premier's literary awards for work based on Henry Lawson short storyThe Indigenous Australian playwright and actor Leah Purcell has won the Victorian prize for literature for her acclaimed reimagining of Henry Lawson's The Drover's Wife, with a $100,000 prize which amounts to Australia's richest single literary award.At the Victorian premier's literary awa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM on January 31, 2017