The Macquarie Dictionary and Macquarie Library, the Macmillan-owned company that publishes it, have left Macquarie University after more than 25 years and moved to the... Read more
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Publisher Pan Macmillan yesterday presented author John Marsden with an award in recognition of the fact that his ‘Tomorrow’ series has now sold two million... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has raised concerns that publishers are claiming an unfair cut of copyright earnings, in the wake of significant increases... Read more
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Writers Peter Temple (The Broken Shore, Text) and Laurie Duggan (The Passenger, UQP) have been named as the recipients of this year’s Australia Council Fellowship... Read more
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Peter Temple’s crime novel The Broken Shore (Text) has been named the winner of the 2006 Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of... Read more
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The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Copyright Amendment Bill has released its report. A link to the report can be found here.... Read more
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The new copyright exceptions proposed by the government were the topic of discussion at Copyright Society function held on 7 November in Sydney, where speakers... Read more
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In news from our Around the World blog this week: the winner of Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize; a ‘challenging’ year for UK indie (and Text... Read more
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Clare Forster, previously publisher–books for adults at Penguin, has joined Curtis Brown, Australia’s largest literary agency. The agency, which is based in Sydney, described Forster... Read more
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The winning titles in this year’s YABBAs (Young Australian Best Book Awards) were announced this morning. Dougal the Garage Dump Bear (Matt Dray, Penguin) was... Read more
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A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been included in the 138-title longlist for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Geraldine... Read more
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Gideon Haigh’s Asbestos House (Scribe) is the winning title in this year’s Westfield/Waverly Library award for literature, worth $15,000, which recognises ‘research undertaken for the... Read more
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Fiona Henderson, head of publishing for the Bantam and Doubleday imprints at Random House, has announced her resignation. As reported in WBN last week, Jane... Read more
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French literary festival Les Belles Étrangères is focusing on New Zealand this year. The 2006 festival, which runs from 13 to 26 November, will include... Read more
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Juggling Truths by Unity Dow (Spinifex) has been named runner-up in South Africa’s Percy FitzPatrick Award. ‘This is the fourth international award our authors have... Read more
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Morris Lurie has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Patrick White Award. The award, which is worth $25,000, is presented each year to... Read more
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The finalists for this year’s Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book were announced last week. The three finalists are Neil Chenoweth for Packer’s Lunch (Allen... Read more
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Carrie Tiffany’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (Picador) is one of five books in the running for the UK’s Guardian First Book Award. The award,... Read more
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In the US, Tim Flannery has just been announced as the winner of the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, in recognition of his ‘significant... Read more
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Two new sequels to those popular Australian dieting and cleaning bibles flank this week’s top 10. At number one is The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Asialink Yogyakarta Fundraiser on 16 November; the free-trade seminar... Read more
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Pat Woolley from Wild & Woolley writes: Nick Vine Hall, the doyen of family history researchers in Australia, has died of cancer, aged 62. Among... Read more
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Australian journalist and author Liz Collins has died at the age of 85. Her early published work includes the novels The Second Step and The... Read more
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British author Lucilla Andrews, best known for her ‘hospital fiction’ romances (also published under the pseudonyms Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus), has died of lung... Read more
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Ernestine Carey, co-author of the bestselling memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (various imprints), among other books, has died at the age of 98.
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