Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced
13 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of state significance ($25,000) Too...
Australian authors on 2020 Dublin Literary Award longlist
12 November 2019
Twelve books by Australian authors have been nominated for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The longlisted books by Australian authors are: Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) The Making of Martin...
‘Missing Marvin’ wins Children’s Peace Literature Award
12 November 2019
Sue deGennaro’s picture book Missing Marvin (Scholastic) has won this year’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. Convener of the judging panel Kate Prescott described Missing Marvin as a funny and gentle...
Fitzgerald wins 2019 Richell Prize for climate change-inspired stories
11 November 2019
Melbourne-based writer Else Fitzgerald has won the 2019 Richell Prize for her entry ‘Nearly Curtains’. Set in a future marked by climate change, the collection of short stories explores the...
Australians nominated for 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
8 November 2019
A number of Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Karen Foxlee (Lenny's Book of Everything, A&U), Paul Jennings (A Different Land,...
Fyfe wins 2019 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
8 November 2019
Melissa Fyfe's article ‘Getting cliterate’ (Good Weekend) has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Fyfe receives $7000. Her winning article describes the work of urologist Helen...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 winners announced
8 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years Let’s Go...
Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist announced
7 November 2019
The Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage) See What You Made Me Do (Jess Hill, Black...
Herrick’s YA novel ‘By the River’ wins German Youth Literature Prize
7 November 2019
NSW-based author Steven Herrick’s YA novel By the River (A&U) has won Germany’s Youth Literature Prize in the young adult division. First published in 2004, By the River follows 14-year-old...
McTiernan wins Barry Award for best paperback original
4 November 2019
Dervla McTiernan has won the Barry Award for best paperback original for her 2018 novel The Ruin (HarperCollins). The annual literary crime awards, named for American critic and crime fiction...
Drewe wins 2019 Colin Roderick Literary Award for ‘The True Colour of the Sea’
1 November 2019
Robert Drewe has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award 2019 and the H T Priestley Medal for his short story collection The True Colour of the Sea (Hamish Hamilton)....
Tighe, Walker announced as inaugural ABR Rising Stars
31 October 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the inaugural ABR Rising Stars, a new initiative to support young ABR writers and critics supported by Creative Victoria and Create NSW. Alex...
‘A Fistful of Shells’ wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
31 October 2019
In the UK, historian Toby Green has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise...
Lake wins 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize for ‘The Bible in Australia’
31 October 2019
Meredith Lake has won the 2019 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) Australia Book Prize, for her book The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (NewSouth). Lake’s...
Chowdhury named Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow
30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Penguin Random House audio producer Radhiah Chowdhury as the recipient of the 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Chowdhury to...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 shortlist announced
30 October 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Disoriental (Négar Djavadi, trans Tina Kover, Europa Editions) Drive Your...
Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
30 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously Do Not Open This Book (Andy...
Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
28 October 2019
Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland's Saltire Literary Awards. Published in the...
Hammer wins UK Dagger award for ‘Scrublands’
25 October 2019
Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2019 Dagger awards. Hammer's...
‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
24 October 2019
Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The novel follows the relationship between...
Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
23 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text) Nonfiction Half...
Chadwick, McMillan win 2019 Polari Prizes
23 October 2019
In the UK, writers Angela Chadwick and Andrew McMillan have won the 2019 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Now in its ninth year,...
Deborah Cass Prize 2019 shortlist announced
23 October 2019
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Deniz Agraz for ‘Rosewater’ Michelle Almiron...
Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction 2019 shortlist announced
23 October 2019
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 titles are: Furious Hours: Murder, fraud...
‘The Glad Shout’ wins 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
22 October 2019
Alice Robinson’s second novel, The Glad Shout (Affirm), has won the 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. The Glad Shout was chosen from a shortlist of six by a...
Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
22 October 2019
Twelve Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's richest prize for children's literature. The Australian candidates are: Randa...
‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
21 October 2019
Picture book Message in a Sock (Kaye Baillie, illus by Narelda Joy, MidnightSun) has won a Northern Lights Book Award for children’s books that ‘excel in aesthetic and literary qualities...
Benson’s ‘Vertigo & Ghost’ wins Forward Poetry Prize
21 October 2019
Fiona Benson’s poetry collection Vertigo & Ghost (Cape Poetry) has won the £10,000 (A$18,846) Forward Prize for best poetry collection, reports the Guardian. Vertigo & Ghost explores vulnerability and rage,...
US$75k Cundill History Prize 2019 finalists announced
18 October 2019
The three finalists for the Cundill History Prize have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of eight, the finalists are: Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi persecution and the quest for justice (Mary...
Walkley Book Award 2019 longlist announced
18 October 2019
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2019 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage) Banking Bad (Adele Ferguson, ABC Books) The Hunt...
