Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke (Viking) was named the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award at the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner on Monday night.
After a moment of confusion, in which the slide for Janette Turner Hospital's shortlisted novel Orpheus Lost was projected onto the screen and mistaken as the winner by the audience, Cooke took to the stage, good humouredly asking the organisers ‘Are you sure?'
The author paid tribute to the team at Penguin, saying she ‘could not ask for a more professional bunch of people', and thanking them for allowing her to ‘do it properly'--referring to the in-depth research undertaken for her book, which involved the Penguin IT department collating 4000 responses to 16 questions.
Cooke amused the audience with tales of her own bookselling days, and said she was ‘so excited this is a booksellers award.' ‘I just think it's the most glamorous thing in the world,' she said of the profession.
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years, beat shortlisted titles Orpheus Lost (Janette Turner Hospital); The Memory Room (Chrisopher Koch, Knopf); 4 Ingredients (Kim McCosker & Rachel Berminham, 4 Ingredients) and stable mate titles The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin, illus by Anne Spudvilas, Viking) and Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern).
http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/06/08549/
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
Tags:
aba book award
What's Hot in the Media 1st December 2008This week's Most Mentioned books were largely Australian in theme with The Best Australian Stories 2008, Tie Me Kangaroo down, Sport and Churchill and Australia all making the top 10.
1 December, 2008
Bestsellers this weekIt's that time of year again when that hefty tome, the Guinness World Records (2009) boldly makes its first appearance on top of the charts.
27 November, 2008
Ten Days on the Island program launchedThe program for Tasmanian arts festival Ten Days on the Island, which runs from 27 March to 5 April, was launched yesterday.
27 November, 2008
Tasmanian Book Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the biennial Tasmanian Book Prize has been announced.
27 November, 2008
The Memory Room' wins Waverley awardChristopher Koch has been awarded the 2008 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature (‘The Nib') for his novel The Memory Room (Vintage).
27 November, 2008
Malouf wins Australia-Asia Literary prize; Buti wins WA Prem's prizeDavid Malouf's The Complete Stories (Random House) is the winner of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award.
27 November, 2008
What's Hot in the Media 24th November 2008Roger Moore's visit to Sydney has done wonders for coverage of his autobiography My Word Is My Bond.
24 November, 2008
Bestsellers this weekA familiar street name (to Melbournians at any rate) and now book is atop the Highest New Entries chart this week--Lygon St by Michael Harden.
20 November, 2008
YABBA winners announcedThe YABBAs (Young Australian Best Book Award) were announced this week in Victoria.
20 November, 2008
Pattrick wins Mansfield PrizeThe 2009 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize has gone to Jenny Pattrick.
20 November, 2008
Add a Comment
Please be civil.