Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia) has been named winner of the Premier’s Prize in this year’s WA Premier’s Book Awards, announced on 8... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2007 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing has been announced, with 62 titles selected over several primary school, secondary school,... Read more |
Colette Vella, editorial manager at Murdoch Books, has been awarded 2007 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship, which was announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival... Read more |
The campus bookselling chain United Campus Bookshops fears several of its NSW TAFE bookshops with contracts currently under review by the NSW education department may... Read more |
Ligare, which is the third-largest book-printing company in Australia, has announced that it has secured a private equity partner, with New Zealand-based Knox Partners taking a... Read more |
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received this year’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$67,000), for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun... Read more |
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been announced as the second recipient of the Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 (A$135,000). Achebe is known as ‘the... Read more |
The Ditmar Awards for science fiction were presented last weekend in Melbourne at the Convergence 2 conference. Among the winners are: novel: The Pilo Family... Read more |
Peter Temple is the first Australian author to be shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (formerly know as the Gold... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, this year worth a total of $165,000. The Fellowships allow writers,... Read more |
Auslit, the research network created by several Australian universities and the National Library of Australia to promote Australian literature, has announced the creation of ‘Black... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on 6 June. Scar Tissue by US author Charles... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: International Booksellers Federation Conference, Cape Town, 13-16 June Cape Town... Read more |
RFID roll-out in librariesAll public libraries in the ACT and a number in Victoria are moving quickly to implement RFID technology. The ACT Library and... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Reuters on HP discounting Charkin ‘borrows’ Google computers at BEA Egmont... Read more |
There’s nothing like a little murder and mayhem to while away the winter nights. Dead bodies, missing persons and battle-weary detectives characterise this week’s top... Read more |
‘There were lots of books we rejected–about personal female issues, the loss of a child, the break-up of a marriage, thinly veiled autobiographical things of... Read more |
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