DAVID MALOUF has won Australia's newest and richest literary prize for his short story collection The Complete Stories.
Malouf was presented with the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in Perth last night.
The $110,000 award, which was created by the former Labor government in Western Australia, is worth $10,000 more than the next richest, the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and is given for fiction by writers resident in, or outside Australia, writing primarily about Australia or As...