Michelle de Kretser pocketed $50,000 at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards on Monday, winning both the Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($40,000) and Book of the... Read more |
Total prize money across the 11 award categories in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards has been doubled to $290,000, the state’s arts minister announced at the awards on Monday... Read more |
This year’s Sydney Writers Festival officially kicked off with an address by Jeanette Winterson at the Sydney Opera House last night, with an opening party held later in a... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced changes to make the travel funding it provides to publishers ‘more flexible.’ BOOKED: International Travel Fund for... Read more |
The overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes were announced on Sunday 18 May at the Franschloek Literary Festival in South Africa. The Book... Read more |
Sonya Hartnett flies to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lingren Memorial Award–and around A$844,000–from HRH Crown Princess Victoria in a lavish awards ceremony. The... Read more |
The autobiography of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is be released overseas and on Amazon by Mainstream Publishing. Proceeds from My Story (Pan Macmillan) were... Read more |
This year’s National Simultaneous Storytime took place around Australia at 11am today. The national event, which sees 70,000 Australian children at almost 900 locations enjoy... Read more |
More Ozlit in NSW schools?Future NSW Year 10 students will have to have studied at least four Australian books, poems or plays under changes proposed... Read more |
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To see the details of all the international booktrade stories we’ve noted in the past week, see our Around the World blog.
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Somewhat predictably, Tim Winton’s Breath hit number one in the Bestsellers and Fastest Movers charts this week. Fellow Australian icon, albeit in the musical sense,... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sydney, 19-25 May APA Book Design Awards... Read more |
Mary Dalmau manager of Reader’s Feast writes on the passing of Nuala O’Faolain: ‘When Nuala O’Faolain visited our bookstore in Melbourne, Australia on the release... Read more |
Pete Evans’ Family Food (Plum) is this week’s fastest mover, having jumped from sixth to first spot on the top 10 bestsellers chart. The rest of the... Read more |
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