Wendy Were has announced that she will not be renewing her contract as festival director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) for the 2010 festival... Read more |
The five titles shortlisted for the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award have been announced. The award, Australia’s richest, is open to any book-length work published in... Read more |
The category winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The awards recognise the best 2007 book in each category by... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2008 CAL Waverley Award for Literature, also known as ‘The Nib’, has been announced. This is the first year that Copyright... Read more |
Crikey publisher Eric Beecher will head up the inaugural board of the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. The centre is part of Melbourne’s winning... Read more |
Nineteen delegates from Scotland and northern UK will arrive in Melbourne on 9 November to meet with Melbourne’s literary community. The delegates are from trust... Read more |
Random House Australia has launched a YouTube channel with short book previews, teasers, author introductions and interviews. Random House marketing director Brett Osmond said the... Read more |
The Lady Cutler Award, which recognises distinguished service to children’s literature, primarily in NSW, has been awarded in 2008 to Di Bates. ‘I was so... Read more |
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that its CEO Jim Alexander has been elected to the Board of the international membership body for rights... Read more |
Ligare launches new Digital Print FacilityLigare will launch a new ‘state of the art Digital Print Facility (DPF)’ at its Riverwood plant on 19 November.... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Westfield charges shock UK retailers New CEO for Reed Elsevier B&N... Read more |
The results for the Bestsellers are in for this week and Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict has made it to number one. The irrepressible Stephenie... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey, 1-9 November Inky Awards night, State... Read more |
Veronica Sumegi, publisher, Brandl & Schlesinger writes: ‘It is with great sorrow that we let you know that Jacob G Rosenberg died on Thursday morning... Read more |
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American author Michael Crichton has died, aged 66. Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, as well as Congo and Disclosure, all of which were adapted into films.
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Pulitzer-prize winning US author Studs Terkel has died, aged 96. His books included Division Street: America and For The Good War: An Oral History of... Read more |
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Milton Katseles, acting teacher, director and founder of Skylight Books in Los Angeles has died, aged 75.
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