Shortlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature announced
Monday, 1 December 2014
The shortlist for the US $50,000 (A$59,000) 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury), The Mirror of Beauty (Shamsur...
PM’s Literary Awards to be broadcast on Sky News and SBS, reports ‘Australian’
Monday, 1 December 2014
The 2014 PM’s Literary Awards will be broadcast by Sky News and SBS, according to a report in the Australian.The Australian reports that the ceremony, which will be hosted by Ray...
Melbourne Poets Union competition winner announced
Monday, 1 December 2014
Carmel MacDonald-Grahame has won the 2014 Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Wreck’. MacDonald-Grahame was presented with a cash prize of $1500 at Collected Works bookstore in Melbourne on...
David Harold Tribe Fiction Award winner announced
Monday, 1 December 2014
Novelist and poet John A Scott has won the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award for his short story ‘Picasso: A Shorter Life’.The award, worth $12,000, is offered by the University of...
Irish Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Friday, 28 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 Irish Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Dublin on 26 November. Debut novelist Mary Costello won Novel of the Year for Academy Street...
RiP P D James
Friday, 28 November 2014
British crime fiction author P D James has died, aged 94.James was best known for her series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She wrote 14 Dalgliesh...
‘Night Games’ wins UK sports book award
Friday, 28 November 2014
Night Games by Australian author Anna Krien (Black Inc.) has won the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK.Krien’s book, which explores sporting culture and...
Screen Australia announces funding for book-to-film adaptations; nonfiction from Garner and Law among the projects
Friday, 28 November 2014
A film based on Helen Garner’s nonfiction book Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Pan) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. The film will be directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who...
‘Chart Collective’ launches ‘Longer Light’ online publishing project
Friday, 28 November 2014
The Chart Collective, a not-for-profit publishing venture supported by the Lifted Brow, has launched an online publishing project that explores summer rituals.The ‘Longer Light’ series will feature 12 different works of writing,...
Wright wins 2014 Waverley Library Award
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Clare Wright has won the 2014 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text).Wright was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...
Simon & Schuster drops ‘Buy It Now’ elending requirement
Thursday, 27 November 2014
In the US, Simon & Schuster is expanding its ebook lending program to all public libraries by dropping its ‘Buy It Now’ merchandising requirement to participate in the program, reports...
Curtis Brown launches online book group
Thursday, 27 November 2014
In the UK, literary agency Curtis Brown is launching an online book group that offers readers a chance to read pre-publication books from the agency’s ‘most exciting new and undiscovered...
UK National Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Thursday, 27 November 2014
The winners of this year’s UK National Book Awards have been announced. Among the winners are UK Author of the Year David Nicholls (Us, Hodder) and International Author of the...
Avid Reader to open children’s bookshop
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Brisbane’s Avid Reader Bookshop has announced plans to open a dedicated children’s bookshop next to its West End store.The new store, to be called Where the Wild Things Are Books...
‘Young Skins’ wins ‘Guardian’ First Book Award
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Debut Irish author Colin Barrett has won the £10,000 (A$18,467) Guardian First Book Award for his short story collection Young Skins (Jonathan Cape), reports the Bookseller. Barrett’s book, which follows the lives of...
O’Neill replaces Gleeson on Copyright Agency board
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Journalist and author Helen O’Neill has been appointed to the board of the Copyright Agency, replacing children’s book author Libby Gleeson.‘[O’Neill] arrives at a time when there are exceptional challenges...
PEN launches Fusion Emerging Writers Prize
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
PEN America has launched a new prize for emerging writers for ‘an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue’. The PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, worth US$10,000...
Earp wins ABA Vic Rep of the Year
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Michael Earp from Walker Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Victorian Rep of the Year Award, narrowly beating runner-up Anthony Pizzinga from Random House by just one vote.The...
New Collins store opens in Caloundra
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
A new Collins Booksellers franchise store and ABC Centre has opened in Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Owners Julie and David Fisher, who are new to the book industry, opened...
Goodreads members prefer books by own gender
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Goodreads has published data analysis that shows its members prefer to read books by writers of their own sex, reports the Guardian. The data showed male authors accounted for 45...
Patterson launches ‘Save Our Books’ campaign
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
In the US, author James Patterson has launched a new campaign called ‘Save Our Books’ to increase support early childhood education and generate more funding for public libraries and librarians,...
Victorian Labor unveils $50m SLV plan
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
The Victorian Labor Party will contribute $50 million to upgrade the State Library of Victoria (SLV) as part of its state election campaign, reports the Age. The proposed upgrade will...
International library news
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Simon & Schuster drops ‘Buy It Now’ elending requirementIn the US, Simon & Schuster is expanding its ebook lending program to all public libraries by dropping its ‘Buy It Now’...
Yarra Plenty Library launches YRead summer reading program
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Yarra Plenty Regional Library in Melbourne has launched a youth summer reading program.The YRead program, which runs from 1 December to 1 February, encourages 13- to 18-year-olds to visit their...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
SalesFiction—Literary agent Alex Adsett has sold world rights to an unnamed science-fiction novel by Tricia Sullivan to Gollancz (Orion and Hachette groups) in the UK. Nonfiction—Random House has sold Danish, Serbian...
Dromkeen owners to host children’s book illustration exhibition, re-establish property as ‘events venue’
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
The Dromkeen Homestead in Riddells Creek, Victoria, and Books Illustrated Gallery will host the ‘John Barrow Collection of Australian Children’s Book Illustration’ exhibition from 7 December.The exhibition will be the...
Farr wins ‘Sunday Star-Times’ short story award
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Australia-born, Wellington-based author Tracy Farr has won the open division of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards for her story ‘Once Had Me’, reports Stuff.co. The award, now in its 30th...
Hamilton and Lawrence joint winners of 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Debi Hamilton and Anthony Lawrence are the joint winners of the 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prize for their poems ‘Red Riding Hood Grows Old’ and ‘Itinerary’, respectively. The winners were announced at a...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
‘We need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art’—Ursula K Le Guin warns against putting profit ahead of art in...
Christmas closing list: submissions due this Monday 1 December
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Publishers and distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 1 December. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter...
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