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Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

Cover of Wifedom Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...

Transit Lounge acquires Colley’s second novel 

Monday, 2 December 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Brendan Colley’s second novel, The Season for Flying Saucers, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. ‘I love the way Brendan Colley captures the strange in...

Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2024 shortlist announced 

Australian Society of Authors logo. Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Meg Caddy for ‘Dross Magic’, which ‘reimagines...

UWA Publishing acquires Inak children’s series 

Photograph of Lora Inak Thursday, 28 November 2024
UWA Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to children’s series The Cockatoo Crew by Lora Inak, in a four-book deal, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management. Illustrated by Kruti Desai,...

Lucashenko wins 2024 Nib Literary Award

Photograph of Melissa Lucashenko Thursday, 28 November 2024
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council’s 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her novel Edenglassie (UQP). The judging panel, comprising publisher Julia Carlomagno, poet Jamie...

Bavyka awarded 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship 

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Writer, visual artist, museum worker and community organiser Ju Bavyka has won the 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Bavyka will use the fellowship to work on their debut work ‘Just a...

McGuire wins 2024 Richell Prize

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...

Rights round-up 

Cover of The Shortest History of AI Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Chinese traditional character rights to The Shortest History of AI by (Toby Walsh) to Sunrise Press in Taiwan. Spinifex has sold German rights to Penile Imperialism...

Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...

Vale Gemma Carey 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Australian author and academic Gemma Carey has died. Carey was director of the Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, where she undertook primary research in governance and...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Three Boys Gone (Mark Smith, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Award-winning writer Mark Smith is a familiar name on the young adult shelves, with his acclaimed Winter trilogy finding its way onto school lists nationwide. Venturing into fiction for adult...

Essence (Thuy On, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Thuy On’s latest poetry collection, Essence, is a meditation on life as an artist. The poems span a variety of subjects and are divided into three sections. The first, ‘Art’,...

Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography 

Photograph of Ian Baker-Finch Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...

National Book Award winners announced

Monday, 25 November 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, worth US$10,000 (A$15,367) in each category, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction James (Percival Everett,...

‘Praiseworthy’ longlisted for Climate Fiction Prize

Cover of Praiseworthy Monday, 25 November 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Chair of judges Madeleine Bunting said Praiseworthy ‘makes you giddy, plunging you into a distinctive form of...

New England Illustration Prize 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...

Michaels wins 2024 Giller Prize for ‘Held’

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Anne Michaels has won the C$100,000 (A$110,028) Giller Prize, Canada’s richest literary award, for her novel Held (Bloomsbury). Of the book, the judging panel wrote: ‘Held is a novel that...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Portuguese rights to The Shortest History of Japan (Lesley Downer), The Shortest History of Italy (Ross King), The Shortest History of Ancient Rome (Ross King), and The Shortest History...

Murdoch acquires ‘She Births’ 

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to She Births: A Practical Guide to Creating a Beautiful Birth by Nadine Richardson, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Richardson is...

 

 

 

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