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National Book Award 2015 shortlists announced

Thursday, 15 October 2015
In the US, the shortlists for the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. On the fiction shortlist are:...

Ban lifted on NZ YA novel ‘Into the River’

Thursday, 15 October 2015
The New Zealand Film and Literature Board has lifted a ban on the sale and supply of New Zealand author Ted Dawe’s YA novel Into the River. The Board’s decision...

Teen talk: Meet the 2015 Inky Awards judges

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Each year, the longlist and shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature are selected by a panel of teen judges, with the winners determined via an online vote. Following...

JCU Colin Roderick Award 2015 winner announced

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University has awarded Michael Wilding the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal 2015 for his book Wild Bleak...

Tozer, Rowell win 2015 Inky Awards

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The winners of the 2015 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature, were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 13 October. Gabrielle Tozer won the Gold...

James wins 2015 Man Booker Prize

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Jamaican novelist Marlon James has won the £50,000 (A$105,550) Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Bloomsbury). Set across three decades, the 686-page novel ‘uses...

New website for Echo Publishing

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Echo Publishing has launched its website. The mobile-friendly site, which was launched in early October, features dedicated author pages with links to authors’ social media and websites, book extracts, reviews...

International library news 

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Wifi hotspot library loans a first for Canada In Canada, the central branch of the Kitchener Public Library in Ontario has launched a pilot program to loan out WiFi hotspot...

SLV 2014-15 annual report released 

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The State Library of Victoria’s (SLV) annual report for 2014-15 has been released. Key figures for the period include: 1,781,690 onsite visits 3,441,756 online visits 49,147 reference queries handled by...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
‘I will never turn my back on my beloved traditional publishers. But if I write a book that doesn’t fit the mainstream, then I’ll go wherever I can to find...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Sales Poetry—Curtis Brown has sold UK rights to Love & F**k Poems (Koraly Dimitriadis) to Honest Publishing. (See news.) Acquisitions Fiction—Scribe has acquired ANZ rights to The Love of a...

ACT Book of the Year 2015 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 ACT Book of the Year has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw, Text) Into the Heart of the Himalayas (Jono...

Overland Story Wine Prize 2015 winners announced

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The winners of Overland’s Story Wine Prize 2015 have been announced. Melissa Manning received the $4000 first prize for her story ‘Woodsmoke’, which will be published in the next issue of...

‘Fishnet’ wins 2015 Not the Booker Prize

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Kirstin Innes’ debut novel Fishnet (Freight Books) has won this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK. Chairman of the judges Sam Jordison...

Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 shortlist announced

Monday, 12 October 2015
The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Jonathan Bate,...

Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced

Monday, 12 October 2015
The winners of this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Queensland on 9 October. The winners in each category are: Fiction...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 12 October 2015
Two cookbooks, I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) and Fast Food for Busy Families (Pete Evans, Plum), have debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week. Wilson’s follow-up...

NZ$630,000 to PANZ for overseas promotion, internships

Monday, 12 October 2015
Creative New Zealand has awarded NZ$540,000 (A$493,637) to the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) for a range of programs to increase international sales of New Zealand authors. The funding...

Svetlana Alexievich awarded 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Friday, 9 October 2015
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich was born...

Bonnier developing new ebook subscription service

Friday, 9 October 2015
Publisher Bonnier is developing a new ebook and audiobook subscription service in its native Sweden, with plans to expand the service internationally, reports the Bookseller. The Bookbeat service is still in the...

 

 

 

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