The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for fiction and nonfiction were announced on Monday 2 November by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett,... Read more |
The winners of the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement were announced last week. C K Stead was awarded the prize for fiction;... Read more |
Adelaide Writers’ Week has released the list of participating writers for 2010. Among the international guests are Audrey Niffenegger (US); Richard Dawkins, Andrea Levy, Jim... Read more |
The Australian Council for the Arts has announced the first comfirmed guests of its Visiting International publishers (VIP) program at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2010. Those... Read more |
Shaun Tan and Margo Lanagan have both been successful at the 2009 World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention in the US over... Read more |
Jeremy Fisher has announced his resignation from the position of Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Fisher, who has been a vocal... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association has announced it will host a digital publishing seminar in Australia early next year, as a new joint initiative with the Australia Council... Read more |
Speculation is growing in the financial press that PEP, the private-equity owners of REDgroup, which in turn owns Angus & Robertson, Whitcoulls in NZ and Borders... Read more |
Several Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted titles include:... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2009 CAL Waverly Library Award, also know as ‘The Nib’, has been announced. This year’s shortlisted works are: Tom Wills (Greg... Read more |
Random House NZ has announced it has purchased independent publisher Longacre Press. Longacre, which was established in 1994, will become an imprint of Random House... Read more |
Christopher Cheng is the winner of the 2009 Lady Cutler Award. The Award recognises distinguished service to children’s literature, primarily in NSW and is administered... Read more |
The Northern Territory Library has announced the winners of the 2009 Northern Territory Literary Awards. The winners are: Bookshop Travel Short Story Award: Castronomy (Barbara... Read more |
The Rehearsal by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for this year’s Guardian First Book Award. Reporting the shortlist, Guardian arts correspondent Mark... Read more |
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller has returned to the ‘Paris end’ of Melbourne’s Collins Street, where the store reopened on Wednesday, 4 November. Kay Craddock became the... Read more |
Springer Verlag, one of the world’s largest publishers of books in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector, has announced that it is making over... Read more |
ABR launches redeveloped website The Australian Book Review (ABR) has launched a new-look website ‘fully redeveloped in keeping with recent scrutiny of the magazine’s design’.... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK ‘bestsellers’ selling fewer copies Macmillan US contract sparks... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction–Scribe has sold North American rights of Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World (Idan Ben-Barak) to Basic Books, Italian... Read more |
Young Australian author Matthew Reilly casts aside Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and other contenders for first place with The Five Greatest Warriors nabbing top... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ACBA annual conference, Brisbane, 4-6 November Room to Read event–Books:... Read more |
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House... Read more |
The wife of the late and legendary Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, has sanctioned Eoin Colfer to write the... Read more |
Fergus Barrowman, publisher, Victoria University Press writes:(From the Booksellers NZ website) ‘We are tremendously sad to tell you of the sudden death of Heather McKenzie,... Read more |
French anthropologist, philosopher and author Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. Among other titles, he wrote a four-volume work called Mythologiques about the structure of... Read more |
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