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2017 Award winner

Picture of woman reading book by pond, beside her a small dragon on a pile of books, another woman standing by a crowned crane, in the distance a dragon hanging out of a tower and threatening a rider and three riders galloping away. Entitled AFTS Award 2017 to honour the outstanding contribution Belinda Calderone has made to the field of Australian Fairy Tales.
Artwork by Erin-Claire Barrow

Dr Belinda Calderone won the first Australian Fairy Tale Society Award for Inspiration and Contribution to Australian Fairy Tale Culture.

Her name was engraved on a badge on the AFTS Award created by Spike Deane.

Belinda Calderone smiles in front of bookshelf with owl bookend.
Belinda Calderone

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