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ABIA 2019 shortlists announced

Thursday, 11 April 2019
The shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U) The Lost Flowers...

Tony Birch on identity and storytelling

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
'What has changed in the last decade, a remarkable shift that critics of festivals ignore, is that Aboriginal writers now appear in greater numbers, and we get to speak for...

Soeterboek leaves NewSouth for UTS

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Nella Soeterboek, the outgoing director of NewSouth Books, has joined the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion as partnerships manager.

Books at MIFF: Submissions open

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Submissions are now open for the 37ºSouth’s Books at MIFF (BaM) program. Australian and NZ publishers and literary agents who are film rights holders of books that have cinematic potential...

George Robertson Award 2019 winners announced

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The winners of the 2019 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 4 April. The...

New database explores diversity in children’s books

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literacy (NCACL) has launched a cultural diversity database designed to help librarians, teachers, parents and readers find books that ‘feature Australia’s culturally diverse population’....

Editors Victoria: Dinner meeting

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting featuring Peter Davies. Formerly the assistant manager, reports and communications, in the Victorian Attorney-General’s department, Davis will reveal the ins and outs of...

Man Booker International Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Celestial Bodies (Jokha Alharthi, trans by Marilyn Booth, Sandstone Press) The Years (Annie Ernaux, trans by...

Changes at Books+Publishing in 2019

Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Books+Publishing has undergone a series of significant changes over the past year as the business transitions to local ownership again, and we thought it would be useful to fill you...

Brow Books acquires two Lau novels, Pham debut

Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Brow Books has acquired world rights to two novels by Jamie Marina Lau. Gunk Baby, which will be published in 2020, follows the character Leen, who has just opened an...

The Paperback Bookshop celebrates 50 years

Monday, 8 April 2019
The Paperback Bookshop in Melbourne's CBD is celebrating its 50th anniversary in April. Current co-owner Rosy Morton, who has owned the shop since 2000, said that she’s heard differing accounts...

Young shortlisted for 2019 Folio Prize

Friday, 5 April 2019
New Zealand writer Ashleigh Young has been shortlisted for the UK's Rathbones Folio Prize. Her Windham-Campell Prize-winning essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (Giramondo) is one of eight books in...

International Dublin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced

Friday, 5 April 2019
The shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award 2019 has been announced. The 10 shortlisted titles are: Compass (Mathias Énard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions) History of Wolves (Emily...

Leane wins 2019 Red Room Poetry fellowship

Friday, 5 April 2019
Wiradjuri poet and writer Jeanine Leane has won the 2019 Red Room Poetry Fellowship. Chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets, Leane receives a $5000 stipend, a $1000 commission to...

Authors, publishers join campaign to resettle Boochani

Friday, 5 April 2019
A number of prominent Australian writers, publishers and journalists have joined a new campaign calling on the federal government to resettle Manus Island-detainee and award-winning author Behrouz Boochani in Australia....

Griffiths wins 2019 Ernest Scott Prize

Friday, 5 April 2019
Billy Griffiths has won the 2019 Ernest Scott Prize for history for his book Deep Time Dreaming (Black Inc.). Griffiths book was chosen from a shortlist of four books, announced...

How it Feels to Float (Helena Fox, Pan)

Thursday, 4 April 2019
How do you find the will to live when you can’t even feel the ground anymore? Elizabeth Martin Grey—Biz—doesn’t know. All she knows is that she’s got one foot in...

Australians nominated for 2019 Hugo Awards

Thursday, 4 April 2019
Several Australian writers and artists are among the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards for science-fiction. Australian author Foz Meadows has been named a finalist in the Best Fan Writer...

Waterstones staffers agitate for wage increases

Wednesday, 3 April 2019
‘Waterstones’ much-celebrated return to profitability has been engineered by Daunt, but built on the labour of booksellers, much of it inadequately remunerated and unrecognised ... Theirs is the tireless effort...

 

 

 

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