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Romantic book of the year shortlist announced
19 June, 2008 The finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. 
19 June, 2008 De Niro's Game by Lebanese author Rawi Hage (Picador) is the winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 
19 June, 2008 Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. 
19 June, 2008 The Resurrectionist by Australian author James Bradley (Picador) and Addition by Australian author Toni Jordan are two of the eight titles that have been chosen for the influential Richard & Judy summer reads list in the UK. 
19 June, 2008 The Big Book Club will be taking authors to ‘some places they wouldn't otherwise go' as part of this year's Books Alive campaign, says Big Book Club spokesperson Fiona Lange. 
19 June, 2008 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. 
19 June, 2008 Penguin is the 2008 publisher of the year, Scribe is small publisher of the year, Gleebooks the independent bookseller of the year and Dymocks Garden City Booragoon chain bookseller of the year, following the announcement of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) at a gala dinner in Melbourne on Sunday night. 
11 June, 2008 Sidney Poitier’s memoir The Measure of a Man has grabbed pole position in the Fastest Movers chart this week.
Canberra Writers' Festival
11 June, 2008 The sixth annual Canberra Writers' Festival will be held from 19 to 24 June.
Tara June Winch to be mentored by Nobel laureate
11 June, 2008 Author Tara June Winch (Swallow the Air, UQP) has been selected for a year-long mentoring program through the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists announced
11 June, 2008 The Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year.
Environment Awards for Children's Literature announced
11 June, 2008 The winners of the Wilderness Society's annual Environment Awards for Children's Literature have been announced.
Griffin Poetry Prize announced
11 June, 2008 The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a colourful Caribbean-themed awards in Toronto on 4 June. 
11 June, 2008 Rose Tremain's 10th novel The Road Home (Vintage) has won this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$62,000).
SLV Fellowships announced
11 June, 2008 The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000.
Queen's birthday honours announced
11 June, 2008 The late Richard Kemsley, a Ginger Meggs cartoonist for 23 years, was among the authors and artists to receive recognition in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. 
11 June, 2008 Three Australian authors' books get equally mentioned in this week's Most Mentioned chart.
Henson magazine pulped
11 June, 2008 The publishers of the bi-monthly art magazine Art World have pulped the most recent issue
ASA announces mentorship recipients
11 June, 2008 The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 20 successful applicants for its 2008/2009 round of mentorships.
Galley Club Awards shortlist announced
11 June, 2008 The shortlist in the Kayell Australia Galley Club Awards for Excellence in Book and Magazine production have been announced.
Ned Kelly awards longlist announced
11 June, 2008 The longlist for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards (or ‘Neddies') has been announced. 
11 June, 2008 In recognition of her lifetime contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, author Doris Pilkington Garimara has been awarded the Australia Council's Red Ochre Award.
Byron Bay Writers' Festival program released
11 June, 2008 The program for this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival, to be held from 25-27 July, has been announced. 
3 June, 2008 It's no surprise that Judith Lucy's family memoir, The Lucy Family Alphabet, is cropping up all over the place. |
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