As announced in a WBN special bulletin on Friday night, the winners of the inaugural Prime Minister’s Awards have been announced. Ochre and Rust by... Read more |
Helen Garner has followed her win at the Victorian Premier’s awards by taking out the prize for fiction ($25,000) for The Spare Room (Text) at... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Australian/Vogel Award has been announced. Author Matt Rubinstein, one of the judges of the $50,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript... Read more |
The Brisbane Writers’ Festival kicks off today in and around the State Library of Queensland and runs until September 21. Chris Abani gives a speech... Read more |
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Dominic Rowell to the newly created role of global marketing director. Rowell, who is originally from London, will... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Whitley Awards have been announced. Presented by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, the awards are for ‘outstanding publications that... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for this year’s teen book choice Inky Awards have been announced. Voting has opened to determine the winner in an Australian category... Read more |
After 32 years in the business, having established their bookshop and music centre in 1977, John and Jill Novak of Mudgee Bookcase have decided to... Read more |
Dymocks holds second RadiothonThe Dymocks Literacy Foundation and Radio 2UE are hosting a second Radiothon on Wednesday 24 September to raise money for beneficiaries to... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Bonnier acquires Templar Sony e-reader a big hit in UK Booker... Read more |
Forget sex, food sells. Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham have done it again with the ‘sequel’ to the chartbuster 4 Ingredients entitled (somewhat uninspiringly) 4... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Brisbane Writers’ Festival, 17-21 September 74th World Congress International PEN,... Read more |
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American novelist David Foster Wallace, best known for his book Infinite Jest, has died. He was 46.
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