On receiving the judges’ congratulations for his dark, evocative poem, Alex Skovron commented: ‘I’m delighted and honoured to be this year’s recipient of the prize.

You once told me that you had learned during the many rewritings of Mr Scobie’s Riddle, which had started out as a long lament, that humour was an essential ingredient if you must write of what is unbearably sad. Election officials gave themselves high marks on Sunday for the handling of the polls, but their comments were in sharp contrast to assessments of international observers. Nor, apparently, was that unseen self writing back.
In the studies involving depression, 61 percent of patients improved while on antidepressants. In 1987, Canberra provided eighty-three per cent of university revenue. Those with mood problems have many good memories, but these scenes are usually tainted by some dark detail.
So the available information is surprising. The grand house was sold up, and her studies suffered. He is a textile manufacturer in Kano, and his factory used to produce 3,000 cotton jersey garments a day.
While the student body did not become significantly more diverse, free tertiary education met some of its goals. The picture in Africa is really mixed, said Peter Lewis, director of the African Studies program at Johns Hopkins University, who was among the researchers who conducted the Afrobarometer survey of African public opinion. But he added that rigid preventive measures like quarantines, mandated mask wearing and widespread business closings would still need to be put in place.
In the middle of that group is Nigeria, a nation of 140 million people divided among 250 ethnic groups and two major religions, Islam and Christianity, all of whom live in a space twice the size of California. It was the first successful demonstration of an antisatellite missile by any country in more than 20 years. In a competitive world, thirty-seven public universities all offering a very similar form of education is, at the very least, a high-risk strategy.
The winner will receive $10,000, making it one of the world’s most lucrative essay prizes. It can be achieved within the constraints of present overall budgets. Activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions towards the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured against the record profits of the pharmaceutical industry.
You once told me that you had learned during the many rewritings of Mr Scobie’s Riddle, which had started out as a long lament, that humour was an essential ingredient if you must write of what is unbearably sad. She, however, is running out of patience with his protracted adolescence. Labor, for example, has advocated even more control over price, by abolishing fee-paying places for Australian students.
Once again, all non-fiction subjects are eligible, from memoir to literary studies to politics to natural history. When we first started studying life stories, people thought it was just idle curiosity — stories, isn’t that cool? Nor, apparently, was that unseen self writing back.