Robinson awarded 2020 Ondaatje Prize for ‘A Portable Paradise’
Thursday, 7 May 2020
In the UK, Roger Robinson has won the £10,000 (A$19,250) Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for his poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press). 'The spirit of place in...
Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Australian Poetry has announced joint winners of the 2019 Anne Elder Award: Cham Zhi Yi for blur by the (Subbed In) and Gareth Sion Jenkins for Recipes for the Disaster...
Funding boost for Australia Reads; Windy Hollow wins at Bologna and more
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
This week, the Australia Reads campaign received a $100,000 funding boost from the federal government, and delayed this year’s Australian Reading Hour event from 17 September to 12 November due...
New Zealand publishing is under threat
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
‘This is the year to buy New Zealand books, if you want to be sure our books are still around in the future.’—Publishers Association of New Zealand president Julia Marshall...
The Secret Library of Hummingbird House (Julianne Negri, Affirm Press)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Julianne Negri’s debut middle-grade novel The Secret Library of Hummingbird House is sure to entice young readers with its effervescent premise and hook. It tells the story of Hattie, a...
The Details: On love, death and reading (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Scribner)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tegan Bennett Daylight knows a thing or two about reading. As a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer, Bennett Daylight has a careful eye for detail and knows how it...
Littlelight (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
A tyrannical leader, an oppressive wall and a courageous girl come together in this timely fable for preschoolers. When bricks start disappearing from the protective wall that surrounds their town,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold UK and Commonwealth and translation rights in those territories to The Silk House (Kayte Nunn) to Orion Publishing Group. The University of Queensland Press has...
The Friendly Games (Kaye Baillie, illus by Fiona Burrows, MidnightSun)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
It’s great to see so many books telling true stories of inspiring young people and overlooked yet defining moments in the lives of different communities. The Friendly Games unearths one...
Windy Hollow Books named Bologna publisher of the year
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Melbourne-based publisher Windy Hollow Books has been named the winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. ‘Windy Hollow Books has...
Whitehead wins second Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Nickel Boys’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
In the US, Colson Whitehead has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Nickel Boys (Fleet). He is the fourth person to win the fiction prize...
Scribe acquisition of ‘The Palace Letters’ ‘personal’ for Rosenbloom
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Scribe has acquired The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking via Jenny Darling & Associates. The book will cover Hocking’s efforts to make Australia’s National Archive release letters between former Australian...
Bishop, Bui, Rowe named SMH 2020 Best Young Aus Novelists
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2020 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for short story collections. The writers are: Alice Bishop for A...
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Monday, 4 May 2020
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O’Brien wins €10,000 Moth Poetry Prize
Friday, 1 May 2020
Queensland poet Damen O’Brien has won the €10,000 (A$19,400) Moth Poetry Prize for ‘The Nave’. The annual prize for a single unpublished poem is sponsored by the publishers of literary...
ANZ picture books longlisted for World Illustration Awards
Friday, 1 May 2020
A number of Australian and New Zealand picture book creators have been longlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020. Spanning 10 categories, the 500-strong longlist includes five ANZ illustrators nominated...
Picador acquires ‘The Dressmaker’ sequel
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Picador has acquired ANZ rights to The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Dressmaker's Secret is a direct sequel following the events of Ham's debut novel...
Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize
Thursday, 30 April 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £40,000 (A$76,200) Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (David Abulafia,...
I Shot The Devil (Ruth McIver, Hachette)
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Richell Prize-winner Ruth McIver’s debut crime thriller is a powder-keg with a slow burning fuse that has you racing to figure out which of the shadowy, unreliable suspects ‘did it’—and...
Garner on being inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
'When I was first starting out there were still people here who would think it was almost not worth publishing a book if it was not first published in London....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Doom Creek (Alan Carter, forthcoming) to Suhrkamp Verlag. HarperCollins has sold a renewal of Polish translation rights to Complete Self-Help for...
RiP Julian Leatherdale
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Novelist Julian Leatherdale has died, after an illness of less than 12 months. Leatherdale was the author of three historical novels for adults, all published by Allen & Unwin (A&U)...
‘The Yield’ sweeps NSW Prem’s Awards, publishers postpone pub dates and more
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Over the weekend, Tara June Winch’s The Yield took out a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, scooping Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...
HGE sells ‘Real Pigeons’ to UK, announces YouTube series
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold its ‘Real Pigeons’ series by Andrew McDonald (illus by Ben Wood) to an as-yet-unnamed UK publisher, which will ‘crash the series into early 2021’,...
ABIA 2020 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U) Cilka’s Journey (Heather...
Ernest Scott Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 April 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Bedlam at Botany Bay (James Dunk, NewSouth) The Seventies: The personal, the political...
‘The Yield’ takes hat-trick at 2020 NSW Prem’s Awards
Monday, 27 April 2020
The Yield by Tara June Winch (Hamish Hamilton) has swept the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, winning Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...
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Monday, 27 April 2020
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APA condemns unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
‘This disappointing, blatant and unforgiving act of piracy comes at a time when the Australian publishing industry—in fact the whole arts industry—is working tirelessly to support communities access content in...
Hardie Grant reaches settlement with PM staffer who distributed Turnbull memoir, Kruimink wins 2020 Vogel and more
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
The big story this week was the unauthorised distribution of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, allegedly by a staffer in the Prime Minister's Office, which Hardie Grant chief executive Sandy...
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