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From the Weekly Book Newsletter1st Feb 2012, No. 2015 Archives
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Bloomsbury to launch new literary imprint
Bloomsbury Publishing will launch a new literary imprint called Bloomsbury Circus in Australia and New Zealand this year. Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar told the Weekly Book Ne...
Published: 01/02/2012
Gleeson to be awarded Dromkeen Medal, Librarian's Medal to Heraud
Children's author Libby Gleeson will be the recipient of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art described Gleeson as 'a worthy recipient of the Dromkeen ...
Published: 01/02/2012
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going to book adaptations. The award for best film ...
Published: 01/02/2012
Authors among those named in Australia Day Honours list
Australian authors were among those recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours. Stuart Macintyre was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) for 'distinguished serv...
Published: 01/02/2012
Readings Port Melbourne to close
Readings has announced that its Port Melbourne store will close. Readings managing director Mark Rubbo said in a statement that Readings had been 'unable to come to an arrangement with the landlord' r...
Published: 01/02/2012
2012 Adelaide Writers' Week program launched
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate in the event are...
Published: 01/02/2012
Campisi appointed 'Island' editor
Dale Campisi, publisher at Arcade Publications, has been appointed editor of Tasmanian literary journal Island. Campisi, who will also continue in his role as publisher at Arcade, replaces former edit...
Published: 01/02/2012
NewSouth announces new science writing prize
NewSouth Publishing has launched a new prize for science writing called the Bragg UNSW Press Prize. The prize, which is named after Australia's first Nobel Laureates William and Laurence Bragg, will b...
Published: 01/02/2012
Pear Jam Books launches full-service publishing house
New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books is now a full-service publishing house. Pear Jam Books was originally established last year by author Jill Marshall to publish a children's book to raise money in ...
Published: 01/02/2012
2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellows announced
New Zealand fiction writers David Lyndon Brown and Anna Taylor are the recipients of the 2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Brown and Taylor will each receive a NZ$20,000 (approximately A$15,480...
Published: 01/02/2012
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