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Hyland, Catton on Orange Prize longlistM J Hyland (This is How, Text) and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (The Rehearsal, A&U) are among the authors on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize ...
Carey on Man Booker shortlist, Tsiolkas misses out
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), wh...
Ned Kelly Awards 2010 winners announced
The winners of the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing Awards were presented at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday 3 September. Best fiction book went to Garry Disher for Wy...
Victorian Premier's awards 2010 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works are: The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction $30,000Parrot and Olivier in America (Peter ...
'The Politics of Suffering' wins 2010 John Button Prize
The Politics of Suffering (Peter Sutton, MUP) is the winner of the 2010 John Button Prize. The prize, now in its second year, is for writing on politics or public policy and honours the late Joh...
2010 Hugo Award winners announced
The winners of the 2010 Hugo Awards for science-fiction were announced at AussieCon 4 on Sunday 5 September. Local author Garth Nix delivered the keynote speech at the awards ceremony and Austra...
Davidson wins 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Robyn Davidson has won the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work-in-progress ‘Self Portrait with Imaginary Mother'. The fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the nonfiction fields of ...
'Anonymous Premonition' wins $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Hold (UQP) has won this year's Kate Challis RAKA Award. The $25,000 award for Indigenous creative artists is offered in a five-year cycle with a different area of the a...
Queensland Premier's Awards 2010 winners announced
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described as an ‘extraordinary book' that &lsquo...
'Lovesong' wins 2010 Age Book of the Year
The winners of the Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 27 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Alex Miller was the overall winner of the Age Book of the Year award...
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