Crocodile Prize 2015: A wondrous journey of discovery
Foreword to the Crocodile Prize Anthology 2015 THIS is the fifth year that the Crocodile Prize Anthology has been published. It is also something of a milestone because literary endeavours in Papua...
View ArticleThe Crocodile Prize – is this the end of five wonderful years?
WE have experienced the good fortune of seeing the Simbu Writers Association step up to organise what will be a very fine Crocodile Prize awards event in Kundiawa next month. I trust that some of our...
View ArticleCroc Prize bigmen to discuss life beyond Phil & Keith
PAPUA New Guinea literature is blooming like an orchid tended with care by PNG Attitude, the Crocodile Prize and Pukpuk Publishing, each of which has offered so much. Now it is time for Papua New...
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Writers from across PNG are 2015 Crocodile Prize winners
WRITERS from seven provinces feature in the nine prizes awarded in this year’s Crocodile Prize – Papua New Guinea’s national literary awards. And one of the winners, 20-year old medical student Hazel...
View ArticleWriting ‘links the human mind with the voice of God’
ECONOMIST Busa Jeremiah Wenogo, 30, winner of this year’s Crocodile Prize for Journalism, tells it like it is from his home in Port Moresby’s Erema settlement. And ‘like it is’ is often rough and...
View ArticleHeritage writer will use Prize award to support literacy in Suau
“I am shocked and in disbelief,” said Ronnie Dotaona when he heard the news. “It’s an honour for me, as a rookie writer in the Crocodile Prize, to win this prestigious writing award.” Ronnie, 33, who...
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Book of the year winner seeks emergence of “crocodile pride”
AUTHOR Baka Bina, winner of the Ok Tedi Mining Book of the Year for 2015, believes in sharing the credit. “Man of Calibre was a collaborative effort between Ed Brumby, my wife Emily Bina and our...
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Literature & art make us who we really are, says prize winner
THE winner of the SP Brewery Award for Illustration in the Crocodile Prize, Emmanuel David Amakure Landu, 23, has a dream. “My dream is to become an architect, but not just any ordinary architect,”...
View ArticleInfinity will be our prize says PNG’s top poet for 2015
“ACKNOWLEDGING the fact that my poem is the best in this tough national literature contest is truly unbearable,” Philip Gena Kaupa told me. Philip, 27, is a marine biologist and, although he was born...
View ArticleWrite for peace & harmony: Rivers Award enters 3rd year
THE Rivers Award for writing about peace and harmony enters its third year with the founder, Val Rivers, again offering K5,000 in cash prizes for original writing on this year’s theme, “What I Was...
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