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4 March, 2009 The Charlotte Zolotow Award 2009 has gone to Australian writer/illustrator Bob Graham, for How to Heal a Broken Wing (Walker Books). 
4 March, 2009 The finalists for the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced.
Crowe wins Margaret Mahy Medal
4 March, 2009 New Zealand's top children's literature prize, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, has been awarded to natural history writer and photographer Andrew Crowe. 
2 March, 2009 Melbourne-based publisher Text Publishing has produced the new Eva Hornung (previously known as Eva Sallis) book. 
2 March, 2009 Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay graces the top of the Highest New Entries chart this week. 
2 March, 2009 New Zealand author Emily Perkins' Novel About My Wife (Bloomsbury) has made The Believer's 2008 Book Award shortlist, chosen by the editors after nominations were made by readers.
Perth Writers' Festival kicks off
2 March, 2009 The Perth Writers' Festival kicks off this coming Saturday 28 February, running to 2 March.
Harry Nicolaides pardoned
2 March, 2009 After his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Thailand, Australian self-published author Harry Nicolaides has been granted a royal pardon helped by campaign efforts of members of Melbourne, Sydney and international chapters of PEN. 
2 March, 2009 The authors whose works have been shortlisted for the South East Asia and the Pacific region for this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize hail from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.
Australia-Asia Literary Prize suspended
2 March, 2009 The Australia-Asia Literary Award, worth $110,000 is under review and will not be held this year. 
23 February, 2009 This week, Jeffrey Archer's controversial blockbuster Paths of Glory sits atop the Most Mentioned chart.
Chief Minister's NT History Book Award
18 February, 2009 Entries for the Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award opens on 1 March 2009. 
18 February, 2009 On the back of the film The Reader, the book of the same name by Bernhard Schlink hits number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week (see film tickets giveaway for more).
Castlemaine Festival literature program announced
18 February, 2009 The program for the Castlemaine Festival has been announced. 
18 February, 2009 The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) announced the finalists of the 2008 Australian Shadows Awards on Black Friday, February 13. 
17 February, 2009 Books by Australian Sonia Orchard and Iranian Azar Nafisi vie for the most mentions in MX this week.
2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards--call for entries
11 February, 2009 Entries from Australian writers are invited to the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction and nonfiction books. 
11 February, 2009 The Highest New Entries chart holds the most interest this week, as it is the only chart that doesn't feature Stephenie Meyer in abundance, or at all.
RHYW launches online store for special format books
11 February, 2009 ReadHowYouWant (RHYW), a special format publisher, has launched an online Braille bookshop ‘in celebration of Louis Braille's 200th birthday'.
ABA, APA to coordinate industry response to bushfire disaster
11 February, 2009 The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will work with the Victorian government to assist communities affected by the bushfires that have killed more than 180 people in Victoria this week. 
9 February, 2009 Last week, Sonya Hartnett's Butterfly and Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty received the most mentions in MX. 
5 February, 2009 Josie Rusher's Robert Pattinson: True Love Never Dies comes in at number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week.
Braunias and Novitz receive Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
5 February, 2009 Steve Braunias and Julian Novitz have been announced as joint winners of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. 
5 February, 2009 Natasha Lester was presented the TAG Hungerford Award for fiction in Perth last week for her manuscript What is Left Over, After. 
5 February, 2009 New Zealand-born author Ruth Park has been named the recipient of the 2008 Dromkeen Medal. |
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