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SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award has been announced. Formerly the Most Underrated Book Award, the prize was first presented under its new...

Australians nominated for 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Monday, 25 October 2021
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...

Serong, Nannestad win $100k Historical Novel Prize

Monday, 25 October 2021
Victorian writer Jock Serong has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for The Burning Island (Text), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and...

Authors boycott Frankfurt over right-wing publisher

Friday, 22 October 2021
A handful of authors have cancelled their appearances at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair to protest the presence of German New Right publisher Jungeuropa, reports the Bookseller. Jungeuropa is run...

US$75k Cundill History Prize finalists announced

Thursday, 21 October 2021
The three finalists for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford,...

SPN 2021 program announced

Thursday, 21 October 2021
The program for the 2021 Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference has been announced. The 10th annual SPN conference will be held online from 25–27 November, with a...

Strubel wins 2021 German Book Prize

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In Germany, Antje Rávik Strubel has won the 2021 German Book Prize for her novel Blaue Frau (S Fischer). Blaue Frau, which translates as Blue Woman in English, was chosen...

Change for International Society of Arboriculture

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: International Society of Arboriculture ISBN prefix: 9781881956; 9781943378; New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Change for Trivent Publishing

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: Trivent Publishing ISBN prefix: 97861581689; 97861581222; 97861580996 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Arts NT Varuna Fellowships announced

Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The recipients of the 2021 Arts NT Varuna Residency Fellowships have been announced. Presented in partnership with the Northern Territory government, the fellowship gives six writers from the Top End...

Creative Victoria latest funding recipients

Monday, 18 October 2021
Creative Victoria has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creators Fund and Creative Workers Fund. Twenty-seven Victorian creators have shared in $995,902 of funding through the 2021 Creators...

Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Monday, 18 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: Islands of Abandonment: Life...

Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award

Friday, 15 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U). Laguna’s coming-of-age story of a boy living in...

T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 15 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, worth £25,000 (A$46,100) has been announced. The 10 shortlisted poetry collections are: Eat Or We Both...

Varuna launches pilot Western Sydney writers fellowship

Thursday, 14 October 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a new fellowship focussing on stories and writers from Western Sydney. Western Sydney Lamplight is a fortnight-long intensive pilot program for 12 writers...

Vale Eddie Jaku

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and author of the bestselling memoir The Happiest Man on Earth (Macmillan), has died in Sydney, aged 101. Born Abraham Jakubowicz in Germany in 1920, Jaku...

Agius to head Welbeck ANZ, NSW bookstores reopen

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Bernadette Agius has been named as the inaugural managing director of Welbeck ANZ, while Juliet Rogers has been appointed managing director of Echo Publishing. After a long lockdown, retail in...

Vale Fergus McCulla

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Peribo account manager Fergus McCulla has died, aged 31. McCulla was diagnosed with a rare and ultimately incurable form of rhabdomyosarcoma in October 2018. He passed away peacefully on 20...

The Wardrobe Makeover Challenge

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
‘Light-hearted, fun, most of all practical! This book has changed the way I think about my wardrobe’ —Becky Miles, Bachelorette and Instagram star For those familiar with the niggling feeling...

 

 

 

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