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Inkys longlist announced

The longlist for second annual Inkys--Teen Choice Book Awards, was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria.

Published 7 August, 2008

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The longlist for second annual Inkys--Teen Choice Book Awards, was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria.

Created by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, The Inkys are the only teen choice book awards in Australia. The Golden Inky (which earns the winer $2000 and a trophy) is given for an Australian book, and the Silver Inky trophy is for an international title.

The longlist is read by a panel of six young judges, aged 14 and up, who create a shortlist of six books to be voted upon from 12 September on www.insideadog.com.au, which received over 500,000 visits last year.

The longlist is:

Golden Inky (Australian books)

  • The Indigo Girls (Penni Russon, A&U)
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan, A&U)
  • Finding Darcy (Sue Lawson, Black Dog Books)
  • Our Little Secret (Allayne Webster, Omnibus)
  • Joel & Cat Set the Story Straight (Nick Earls & Rebecca Sparrow, Penguin)
  • Michael Sweeney's Method Sean Condon, Penguin)
  • Kill the Possum (James Moloney, Penguin)
  • Town (James Roy, UQP)
  • Game as Ned (Tim Pegler, HarperCollins)
  • A Brief History of Montmaray (Michelle Cooper, Random House).

Silver Inky (International books)

  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (Gabrielle Zevin, A&U)
  • Boy Toy (Barry Lyga, Pan Macmillan)
  • Before I Die (Jenny Downham, Random House)
  • Hero (Perry Moore, Random House)
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness, Walker Books)
  • Snakehead (Anthony Horowitz, Walker Books)
  • Life As We Knew It (Susan Beth Pfeffer, Scholastic)
  • Genesis (Bernard Beckett, Text)
  • Broken Soup (Jenny Valentine, HarperCollins)
  • Extras (Scott Westerfeld, Simon & Schuster)

This year the awards will also include the Inkys Creative Reading Prize, a new award given to a reader who writes the best creative response to a book on the shortlist.
The winners will all be announced at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 6 November.
For more information visit www.insideadog.com.au.

http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/08/09077/

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

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