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The longlist for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 10 longlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Room for a Stranger (Melanie... Read more |
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Walker Books Limited, parent company of Walker Books ANZ, has been acquired by private equity-owned children’s content company Trustbridge Global Media, but says ‘no changes to operations are contemplated’. In... Read more |
The shortlist for the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The seven shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Therefore I Am’ by Miranda Luby, which follows Sarah,... Read more |
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The winners of the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Debut novelist Becky Manawatu took out the NZ$55,000 ($A51,700) Jann Medicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, New Zealand’s... Read more |
The longlist for the Australia Institute Writer in Residency Program has been announced. One winning writer will receive a $5000 stipend to undertake a two-week residency to develop a nonfiction... Read more |
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In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) president and CEO Carolyn Reidy has died suddenly after experiencing a heart attack. Reidy was 71. Simon & Schuster Australia told Books+Publishing the... Read more |
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