The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted works in two of the categories are: Best crime fiction Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Ripper (Shelley Burr, Hachette) Dark Corners (Megan Goldin, Michael Joseph) The Seven (Chris Hammer, A&U) The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Darling Girls (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan) Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt,
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles in the Fiction category are: Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) Restless Dolly Maunder (Kate Grenville, Text) Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) The Carnal Fugues (Catherine McNamara, Puncher & Wattmann) Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards acknowledge the contribution of
More Award News for 2024 The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. Included in the shortlists are – Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle, its protectors and the man who fought for justice (Anne Manne, Black Inc.) Alice TM The Biggest Untold
Qld Literary Awards 2024 The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Two of the shortlists appear below. Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($30,000) Borderland (Graham Akhurst, UWA Publishing) Fat Girl Dancing (Kris Kneen, Text) Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) Poof (J M Tolcher, James Tolcher) Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity (Ellen van
Shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The Chasm (Bronwyn Hall, HQ Fiction) The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo) Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador) Exquisite Corpse (Marija Peričić, Ultimo) The Fall
Literary Awards The biennial Magarey Medal for biography, awarded to the female author who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject in the preceding two years, was presented to Ann-Marie Priest for the 2022 title My Tongue Is My Own: A life of Gwen Harwood (La Trobe University Press), the first
Miles Franklin Award The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced in May, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann) Wall (Jen Craig, Puncher & Wattmann) Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) The Bell of the World (Gregory Day, Transit Lounge) Hospital (Sanya Rushdi, Giramondo) Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo).
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International Booker Prize 2024 The novel Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from German by Michael Hofmann (Granta), has won the £50,000 (A$95,325) International Booker Prize. Kairos was chosen from a shortlist of six by a judging panel that included writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel (chair), poet Natalie Diaz, Booker Prize–shortlisted novelist Romesh Gunesekera, artist William Kentridge, and writer,
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on 20 May. Ali Cobby Eckermann’s verse novel She Is the Earth won the overall $10,000 Book of the Year award, as well as the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize. The winning titles in selected categories are: Book of the Year ($10,000) She Is the Earth (Ali Cobby
Award Winners 2024 Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the £10,000 (A$18,958) prize. Fiction judge Benjamin Bateman, of the University of Edinburgh, called Praiseworthy ‘a kaleidoscopic and brilliantly conceived novel that interweaves matters of climate and Indigenous
ABIA awards 2024 The winners of the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards have been announced, with The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) taking out the overall book of the year award, as well as winning in both the general nonfiction book of the year and social impact book of
Death of Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (3 February 1947 – 30 April 2024) was an American writer and film director. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His most recent book was Baumgartner [2024]. His books have
Stella Prize 2024 Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018 prize for Tracker (Giramondo). A proud member of the Waanyi Nation, Wright has won numerous awards, including the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Carpentaria. At the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards, Praiseworthy won
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,245). The full list of shortlisted titles includes: Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton, Granta) * Daughter (Claudia Dey, Doubleday Canada) Coleman Hill (Kim Coleman Foote, Zando) Brotherless Night (V V Ganeshananthan, Viking) A History of Burning (Janika Oza, Vintage). First presented