The shortlists for the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, which include a young adult category for the first time this year, have been announced.... Read more |
The longlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal has been announced. In announcing the award the judges said they wanted ‘to make special mention of... Read more |
Sales of the titles on the 2011 ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ Get Reading! list increased by 115% during last year’s campaign, compared to... Read more |
Jane Curry will finish in her position as managing director of Global Publishing and Quarto Marketing Australia next month to return to her own business,... Read more |
Stephanie Johnston has stepped down from her position as director of Wakefield Press. Johnston, who purchased the South Australian-based independent publisher in 1991, stepped down... Read more |
The program for the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week, which will be held in Wellington between 9 and 14 March, has... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the editors selected to attend the 2012... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests (Anna... Read more |
A number of book illustrators have been recognised in the Illustrators Australia (IA) Australian and New Zealand illustration Awards. More than 100 illustrators participated in... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has announced that children’s and YA submissions will now be accepted as part of its already established ‘Friday Pitch’ program. Established in 2006,... Read more |
The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a free national franchising service called the National Franchise Program (NFP), which is designed to strengthen the Australian franchising... Read more |
A number of titles by Australian authors have been selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding... Read more |
Robb named 2012 CAL Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at UTSAustralian writer Peter Robb has been named as the inaugural Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Books-a-Million, Indigo join ban on Amazon Publishing titles... Read more |
‘It is good to be the only major English-speaking country whose publishing industry actually did not suffer a decline in 2011 versus 2010,’–Publishers Association of... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, we meet touring author Alain De Botton, Katie Horner reviews Currawalli Street (Christopher Morgan, A&U) and Carody Culver reviews The Grimstones:... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold world English ex-ANZ rights to The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman... Read more |
February Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Silent Fear) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (including regional). Carrie Tiffany, Picador (Mateship with Birds) Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Janette... Read more |
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Tennis stars’ autobiographies dominate the top of the fastest movers chart this week with Australian Open 2012 finalist Rafael Nadal’s memoir, Rafa: My Story (Rafael Nadal... Read more |
Carrie Tiffany’s Mateship with Birds (Picador) is set on the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s. A lonely farmer trains his binoculars... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Perth International Arts Festival, WA: 10 February to 3 March. Writers... Read more |
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Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, has died aged 88. Szymborska published around 20 volumes of poetry, some of which have been translated. Works available in... Read more |
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