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2018 Award winner

A framed artwork showing a lady with hair to the ground standing by a tower, awarding the 2018 AFTS Award to Kate Forsyth.
Artwork by Jane Carlisle

Dr Kate Forsyth won the 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.

Kate Forsyth on a sofa reading one of her novels.
Kate Forsyth

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