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HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michael Moynahan as new CEO for Australia and New Zealand. Moynahan, currently managing director for Random House India and chairman of Random House New ...
Anita Heiss and Peter Minter are the winners of the 2008 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. The award, announced at a ceremony at the Sydney ...
The Lost Dog by Michelle De Kretser (A&U) has been named the winner of this year's Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for an outstanding literary work. The award has the longest ...
The winner of the 2007 Iremonger award for writing on public issues was announced in December. The winning manuscript proposal is Once Were Radicals by Irfan Yusuf. The award carries prizem...
Australian author Garth Nix has secured a seven-figure deal with HarperCollins in the US for North American rights to three new titles--including a prequel and sequel to his ‘Old Kingdom' YA fan...
This year's Vogel/Australian Literary Award has been presented to 34-year-old Melbourne-based writer Stefan Laszczuk for his second novel I Dream of Magda, which is inspired by the character...
Sci Fi conference goes onlineAugust's Conflux 4 science fiction convention will be held entirely online, according to the ABC. Richard & Judy pick MortonThe Shifting Fog by Australian author ...
Allen & Unwin, which publishes the Harry Potter series in Australia, has announced a competition to win a trip to London to see J K Rowling on the eve of the final book's publication. To cel...
Jane Palfreyman, former executive publisher at Random House, has signed four titles since beginning in her new position of publisher at Allen & Unwin on 20 February--all of them by authors she pub...
Faye Sutherland, manager of the Co-op Bookshop at Macquarie University, has been awarded this year's Unwin Trust Fellowship. Sutherland, who is the first academic bookseller to be awarded the fel...