‘Taboo’ and ‘The Book of Dirt’ dominate NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
9 May 2018
Two works of fiction that draw on and draw attention to horrifying historical events events have dominated Australia’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, announced on 30 April. Book of...
Awards put poetry in the spotlight
12 April 2018
Poetry has been the focus of several Australian awards and shortlists recently, with poet and performer Candy Royalle being chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets to win the 2018...
Indigenous author Bruce Pascoe receives Lifetime Achievement in Literature award
8 March 2018
Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have...
‘The Trauma Cleaner’ wins multiple awards
8 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing) at this...
‘The Windy Season’ wins prize for ‘exciting and exceptional’ Australian fiction
9 November 2017
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction—which recognises ‘exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature’—has gone to Sam Carmody’s debut novel, The Windy Season (Allen & Unwin), about a...
Arnold Zable wins literature fellowship for ‘outstanding, established artists’
11 October 2017
Arnold Zable has been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for literature, which is presented to ‘outstanding, established artists’ to support creative activity and professional development. Zable is the author...
‘Extinctions’ wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award
14 September 2017
Josephine Wilson has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her novel Extinctions, published by Western Australia–based small press UWA Publishing. The judging panel described...
Keith Murdoch bio wins top award
8 August 2017
Tom D C Roberts’ biography of Rupert Murdoch’s father, Australian journalist Keith Murdoch, has won the Australian National Biography Award. The judges described Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth...
Small presses dominate Miles Franklin shortlist
6 July 2017
The shortlist for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, was announced last month. Four of the five shortlisted titles are published by small Australian presses: The...
