This
year’s list of the Crocodile Literature Competition Prizes amazes as much as
ever.
Two
writers from the Rabaraba district, themselves Baniaras, continue to fascinate their
followers from that part of the Milne Bay Province in being part of the
proactive group of writers that constitute the prestigious Crocodile Literary
Camp.
They
are Imelda Yabara of Mukawa village and Russell Soaba of Tototo.
Since
2005 the former had vowed not only to emulate her senior colleague and
compatriot in PNG literature but to surpass him by aspiring to the higher
stations of perfection in creative literature. And kept her word she did.
Imelda
Yabara becomes this year’s winner of the Ok Tedi Mining Prize for Women's
Literature (Dame Carol Kidu Award) for her short story, My Name is Sandy
and her poems In Bed with Me and Way Out of Reach.
Already
her followers and relatives alike in her part of the Milne Bay Province were
celebrating in tune to the mood of the nation’s 37th Anniversary
Independence festivities with that win. Words of congratulations came from
Rabaraba and Baniara, including followers and relatives in Australia.
The
Anuki Country Press now further congratulates Imelda Yabara’s win, along with
Russell Soaba’s award from the British and American Tobacco (PNG) for “a
lifetime achievement in Papua New Guinea literature”.
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