Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Striped World by Sydney poet Emma Jones (Faber) has won Best First Collection at Britain's Forward Prizes for Poetry. The £5000 pound (A$8935) prize, awarded in London on Wednesday...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has become a shareholder in the UK-based publisher Atlantic Books. A&U's involvement as a significant shareholder follows the decision of Atlantic Books' New York-based parent company...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The winners of New Zealand's Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Awards have been announced. One of the NZ$35,000 (A$28,300) awards went to Peter Wells MBE to write a book of biographical essays...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The titles shortlisted for this year's Inky Awards for YA literature have been announced. Shortlisted for the Golden Inky for an Australian author were Worldshaker (Richard Harland, A&U); Everything Beautiful...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak professional body for editors, held a successful National Editors Conference during October, on the banks of the River Torrens in Adelaide. The...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Borders this week announced its 100 Favourite Books of All Time, as voted for by customers. Subscribers to the Borders e-newsletter were asked to vote for their favourite book throughout...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its sixth year, was held in Ubud, Bali, from 7 to 11 October.While final numbers will not be available until the end...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction-Hachette Australia has sold US rights to Stephen Irwin's The Dead Path (also known as The Darkening) to Doubleday via Scott Miller at Trident Media...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
‘I'm tired of going to conferences and talking about "the future": we're in it already ... what are you doing?'--Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan UK addressing the inaugural O'Reilly Tools...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the 61th fair of Frankfurt's modern era, gets underway officially from today, but already the German city is a hive of international publishing activity. The...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest presides over the Highest New Entries chart this week and comes second in the Bestsellers after The Lost Symbol by Dan...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 14-18 OctoberAustralian and NZ Society of Indexers Conference, Sydney, 15-17 OctoberSisters...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has been making many an appearance on the MX Most Mentioned chart of late, thanks to her new novel The Year of the Flood. Local favourite...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Monday 2 November. The second annual award ceremony will be a lunchtime event to be held in...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mantel's novel was the favourite to win the prize and is the first bookies'...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
UNSW Press managing director Robin Derricourt has announced he will stand down from the position in February 2010. Derricourt, who has completed 13 years in the role, told WBN he...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A review of the biography The Making of Julia Gillard (Jacqueline Kent, Viking) in the Monthly has drawn criticism from Penguin publisher Ben Ball, reports the Australian. The Monthly review...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A new venture in New Zealand aiming to digitise New Zealand books has so far attracted 300 books from 30 publishers, reports Scoop. New Zealand's Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL), Digital...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
New Zealand Book Month, which runs through October, has kicked off with a gala launch in Auckland, hosted by Buddle Findlay. ‘There's plenty to get excited about with loads of...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has backed the Australian Publishers Association in rejecting a proposed compromise position on parallel importation. ‘We certainly support the position the publishers have taken,'...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Auckland novelist Michele Powles has been named the 2010 Robert Burns Fellow. Powles, the director of New Zealand Book Month, which kicked off last week, is the author of Weathered...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The 2010 ‘WorldCon' science-fiction, fantasy and horror convention, will be held in Melbourne in 2010.  'Aussiecon 4' will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 2 to...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
In rights news this week:   SalesFiction--Translation rights to The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti, Hachette) have been sold to Random House Germany. Text has sold North American rights to Hollywood...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
'The pet theory is that the enlightened, the sophisticated, the cosmopolitan, the cultured, the international, the universal attitude is to leave the Australian literary field wide open to world competition...