The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 2022 program for its conference, to be held in person 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney, while Perth Festival reported its 2022 Writers Weekend was ‘a joy’ despite Covid restrictions.
Welbeck ANZ has appointed Anabel Pandiella as head of publicity and marketing, and Sydney Writers’ Festival artistic director Michael Williams has announced that the this year’s upcoming festival will be his last.
Nielsen BookData has reported adult fiction and manga sales drove the overall growth in value in the Australian book market in 2021; QBD Books is set to open its biggest store to date in Adelaide in late March; and nonfiction publisher New Holland Publishing Group has sold its Aotearoa New Zealand publishing business to independent publisher Upstart Press.
Trent Dalton’s Love Stories (Fourth Estate) has been named Book of the Year at the 2022 Indie Book Awards, and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2022 Award Mentorship program for Writers and Illustrators.
Overseas, French children’s writer Marie-Aude Murail and Korean artist Suzy Lee were the recipients of the 2022 IBBY Hans Christian Anderson author and illustrator awards respectively, and the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced.
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