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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...

New CBD office for Penguin Random House in Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Penguin Random House has announced the publisher’s Melbourne office will move from its current Docklands location to level 28 of 2 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank from Monday, 6 December. Julie Burland,...

Bloomsbury withdraws Haigh cookbook

Tuesday, 12 October 2021
In the UK, Bloomsbury has withdrawn a cookbook by Michelin-starred chef and former MasterChef contestant Elizabeth Haigh from circulation, reports the Bookseller. Makan: Recipes from the heart of Singapore was...

Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced

Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...

NSW retail to reopen after lockdown

Monday, 11 October 2021
After over 100 days of restrictions, New South Wales has reached its reopening target of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated with two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bookshops...

Italian book sales rise 29%

Monday, 11 October 2021
In Italy, book sales have risen by 29% in the first nine months of the year, compared to the same period in 2020, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to data from...

Richell Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Friday, 8 October 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers were judged on the first three chapters...

Booktober

Friday, 8 October 2021
Booktober from WestWords is the lockdown friendly fundraising event helping turn the page on literary disadvantage in Greater Western Sydney. WestWords is partnering with Booktopia for the second year in...

MWF to launch podcast, free digital events

Friday, 8 October 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced it will release more than 50 cancelled events from its 2021 program as podcasts from 13 October, with a further five events from First...

Gurnah awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

Friday, 8 October 2021
Zanzibar-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Gurnah was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm...

Balint, Meany win 2021 Viva la Novella prize

Thursday, 7 October 2021
The 2021 Viva la Novella prize has been awarded to Christine Balint for Water Music and Helen Meany for Every Day is Gertie Day. Both novellas have been published by Seizure....

Giller Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 October 2021
In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$109,250) 2021 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction published in English has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: What Strange Paradise (Omar...

Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$18,700), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Checkout 19 (Claire-Louise Bennett, Jonathan Cape) Assembly (Natasha Brown, Hamish Hamilton) A...

National Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
In the US, the finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Fourth Estate) Matrix (Lauren Groff, William...

 

 

 

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