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Timely recognition for Winch
29 April, 2008 Tara June Winch has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts initiative
Organisers promise 'dynamic' Ubud writers festival
29 April, 2008 Organisers have promised that the fifth Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will be ‘dynamic and full of surprises'.
New writing prize to honour John Button
29 April, 2008 Plans are underway to commemorate the late politician, author and Melbourne Writers' Festival Chairman John Button with a writing prize.
WA Premier's Prize now worth $110,000
29 April, 2008 The West Australian Premier's Literary Award has become Australia's richest. 
29 April, 2008 As you can imagine, Anzac Day-related titles had quite a presence throughout the media this weekend. 
23 April, 2008 As predicted here last week, Marian Keyes has won the duel with Jodi Picoult and takes out number one position this week 
21 April, 2008 A biography of a famous local - possibly Australia's first superstar - came first on our Most Mentioned chart this week.
Children's authors call for action in Darfur
20 April, 2008 Fourteen children's authors, including J K Rowling, Michael Morpugo, Judy Blume and R L Stein, have written an open letter calling for politicians to ‘act on Darfur.'
Hans Christian Andersen awards to Schubiger and Innocenti
20 April, 2008 The winner of the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards were announced at the Bologna Book Fair on 31 March.
'Capote' screenwriter to adapt Nix book?
20 April, 2008 Author Garth Nix looks set to bring his novel Sabriel to the big screen, with plans the possible film of the first book in the ‘Old Kingdom' trilogy to Hollywood studios in late April.
Shortlist for Kibble and Dobbie Awards announced
20 April, 2008 This year's shortlists for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers and the Dobbie Encouragement Award have been announced. 
20 April, 2008 Australian journalist Caroline Overington has won this year's $30,000 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for her account of the $290 million Iraqi oil-for-food scandal. 
20 April, 2008 Biographies of Napoleon and two of ‘history's nobodies' have been named joint winners of this year's National Biography Award.
NSW Prem's awards shortlist announced
20 April, 2008 The NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist was announced today.
Aussie cookbooks score in Gourmand Awards
20 April, 2008 The Gourmand Awards for 2008 have been presented at a ceremony in London, with seven Australian food and wine books receiving prizes, placing Australia ‘in the top 10 countries in the world for food and wine books,' according to the Gourmand judges.
Lonely Planet defends guidebooks
20 April, 2008 Claims that a Lonely Planet contributor plagiarised and made up large sections of three guidebooks, widely reported in the mainstream media in recent days, have been ‘taken out of context,' according to the author at the centre of the controversy. 
20 April, 2008 This Charming Man, the new offering from Marian Keyes--the Irish writer who can do no wrong in the chick-lit world--takes top spot in the Highest New Entries chart this week.
Miles Franklin shortlist announced
20 April, 2008 The shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced at the State Library of New South Wales this morning. 
15 April, 2008 Julia Leigh's awaited second novel Disquiet has been greedily snatched up by our nation's reviewers and, as a result, gained the most mentions this week.. 
11 April, 2008 Underbelly: The Gangland War has finally been knocked off its bestseller perch and is superseded by Jodi Picoult's new release--A Change of Heart. 
11 April, 2008 Waiting for Mummy by Korean author Lee Tae-Jun and illustrator Kim Dong-Seong is on the shortlist for the picture-book section of Germany's premier prize for children's books, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. 
11 April, 2008 Junot Díaz has been announced as the winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Faber).
Dowling wins Shadows Award
11 April, 2008 Terry Dowling's short story ‘Toother' has won the Australian Shadows Award for best horror story of 2007.
Early birds flock to Byron Bay
11 April, 2008 Early bird three-day passes are now available for the Byron Bay Writer's Festival and are selling in ‘record' numbers. 
11 April, 2008 ‘The broad idea of vision' will underpin this year's Sydney Writers Festival program, says artistic director Wendy Were. |
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