A number of authors have been announced for the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 2-7 March 2019. Among the international authors attending the festival are Nigerian poet and... Read more
Business development program Foundry658, an initiative from State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural bootcamp sessions.... Read more
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook... Read more
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!... Read more
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired a majority stake of 70% in Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras. PRH previously acquired a 45% stake in the Brazilian publishing house in 2012,... Read more
Scotland-based Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova has won the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta). Chosen from a shortlist... Read more
