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22 October, 2008 The longlist for the Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced along with all finalists for the 53rd Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism on 15 October at the Blacket Hotel in Sydney, and Melbourne's Press Club. 
22 October, 2008 The shortlist for the NSW Premier's History Awards has been announced.
Indigenous Literacy Day 2008 raises $185K to date
22 October, 2008 This year's Indigenous Literacy Day, held on Wednesday 3 September, has raised $185,000 to date. 
22 October, 2008 The longlist for the Australia-Asia Literary Award, formerly the West Australian Premier's Literary Award, has been announced. 
20 October, 2008 Author Marilynne Robinson made a name for herself with her award-winning novel Gilead. 
15 October, 2008 Twilight is sitting pretty at number three in the Bestsellers, as Stephenie Meyer keeps the chart afloat with four of her titles in the top eight.
Nitschke launches e-book version of banned book
15 October, 2008 Philip Nitschke has launched an e-book version of his Peaceful Pill Handbook in London ‘to circumvent Australian legislation' banning the book's sale here, reports the Australian.
BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award winners announced
15 October, 2008 The winners of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards for 2008 have been announced. 
15 October, 2008 Anita Heiss and Peter Minter are the winners of the 2008 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. 
15 October, 2008 The winners of this year's Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for women's crime writing have been announced. 
15 October, 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008. 
15 October, 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) has been named the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. 
13 October, 2008 Robert Drewe's collection of short stories, The Rip, was top of our Most Mentioned chart last week. 
8 October, 2008 Brisingr by the young Christopher Paolini has come up trumps in the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers charts this week.
Jones, Oliver and Smither win NZ PM's awards
8 October, 2008 The winners of this year's New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced.
Tibet objections force atlas to print in Hong Kong
8 October, 2008 Earth, the new out-sized atlas from Millennium House, has been printed in Hong Kong to avoid a possible embargo by China, Millennium House managing director Gordon Cheers told WBN.
ABR announces details of John Button readers' award
8 October, 2008 The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the details of a new prize to commemorate John Button. 
8 October, 2008 Independent booksellers of Australia have voted Tim Winton's Breath (Hamish Hamilton) their inaugural ‘Indie' Award winner for 2008.
6 October, 2008 One of Australia's favourite authors, Robert Drewe, received a number of mentions for his new collection of short stories, called The Rip, in the press at the weekend.
National Young Writers' Festival
1 October, 2008 The National Young Writers' Festival runs from 2 to 6 October in Newcastle, NSW, as part of the This is Not Art (TiNA) Festival.
Australian poetry slam returns
1 October, 2008 Australia's largest performance poetry competition will have poets competing for a $5000 prize and a chance to perform in the National Grand Slam at the Sydney Opera House on 4 December.
Franco-Anglais Poetry Festival comes to Melbourne
1 October, 2008 From 8 to 12 October Melbourne will host the 31st Franco-Anglais Poetry Festival.
1 October, 2008 As expected, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr has struck gold in the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts, starring at number one in both. 
1 October, 2008 The Five Mile Press is re-releasing A Killer in the Family (Lindy Cameron and Fin J Ross), after legal considerations prompted the publisher to recall the title earlier this year. 
1 October, 2008 The winners of the 2008 Australian Food Media Awards were announced on Friday September 26 in the Parkside Ballroom of the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, to an audience of 400 people. |
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