Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Wellington poet and creative nonfiction writer Chris Price has been awarded the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The prize enables a New Zealand writer to work at the Villa Isola...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Queensland poet, writer, journalist and theatre critic David Rowbotham AM has died, aged 86. Rowbotham received the Patrick White Award in 2007.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Cyril Renwick AO, professor and co-author of The Economic Pattern (Longmans Green), has died aged 90.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Howard Jacobson has won the £50,000 (A$80,000) 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury).The award was announced at a presentation dinner in London overnight. Allen &...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
UQP's Kirty Burow attended the Brisbane ‘Women of Letters' event last week and summed up the experience with a letter of her own, for the Fancy Goods blog here. Also...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The 2010 Citibank Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia last week was the largest in the festival's history. The four-day festival was attended by 135 writers from 27...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Torment (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), the young adult paranormal romance novel and sequel to Fallen (Doubleday), is first on the bestseller chart and highest new entries chart this week. In another...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
As we await the finalisation of Frankfurt rights deals, Scholastic reports the company has licensed the UK rights to three titles: You (Stephen Michael King), Farticus Maximus: Bottomus Burps of...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 25 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, book news, event reports, category round-ups and interviews with authors Brendan Cowell, Peter Robb and...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday, with a consensus from all quarters that this year's fair was a particularly ‘buzzy' and successful one. Following a slightly glum mood...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade articles added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Walker Books expands into IndiaHow green is ereading?CWA Dagger award winners'All of this is...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
‘Who thought all us English majors would be spending all our time on metadata?'--Doninique Raccah of US-based independent publisher Sourcebooks, speaking at the Frankfurt Tools of Change conference on all...

Monday, 11 October 2010
The Australian Poetry Centre and the Poets Union will merge to form a national organisation at the start of 2011. The two organisations will join forces as of the 1...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Online book retailer The Nile has relaunched its Australian and New Zealand websites. The new-look websites, TheNile.com.au and TheNile.co.nz, feature improved functionality, increased presence of social media tools and a more...

Monday, 11 October 2010
John Ajvide Lindqvist's chilling vampire tale Let The Right One In is about to explode across cinema screens as the US-adaptation ‘Let Me In'. Directed by Cloverfield's Matt Reeves, this...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Former bookseller and publisher Margaret Hamilton has opened a new centre for children's books in New South Wales. Pinerolo, The Children's Book Cottage, is located at Blackheath in the Blue...

Monday, 11 October 2010
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Monday, 11 October 2010
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Monday, 11 October 2010
Ex-Good News Week panellist Corinne Grant has put her pen to paper to describe a messy year of her life in her new book Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Queensland Writer's Week: 11-17 OctoberSubmissions close for 2011 Finch Memoir Prize: 15 OctoberRedact 2010 - Editors...

Monday, 11 October 2010
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Chinese academic and writer Liu Xiaobo. Liu, who is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in China, was awarded the prize...