2024 Dublin Literary Award Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into English. The books shortlisted for the prize are: Old God’s Time (Sebastian Barry, Faber) * Solenoid (Mircea Cărtărescu, Deep Vellum Publishing) Haven (Emma Donoghue, Picador)
Indie Book Awards 2024 Australian independent booksellers have announced Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr (Black Inc) as the best book from the last year, and the winner of the Indie Book Awards 2024 Book of the Year. The individual category winners in Fiction, Debut Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children’s and Young
ABIA Awards 2024 The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Two of the shortlists are below. General fiction book of the year The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm) Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian-Blunt, Ultimo) Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph) Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,
The shortlists for the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Included in the works selected for the shortlists for this year’s awards are: Best young adult novel Borderland (Graham Akhurst, UWA Publishing) Best horror novel Borderland (Graham Akhurst, UWA Publishing) Best science fiction novel Minds of Sand
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The Stella Prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book by an Australian woman or non-binary writer, which is deemed to be ‘original, excellent, and engaging’. Six shortlisted titles will be announced on 4 April and the winner will be
Several books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into English. Among the 70 books longlisted for the prize are: Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton, Granta) * Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U)
Indie Book Awards 2024 Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards celebrate the best Australian writing; and who better to nominate and judge the best-of-the-best than indie booksellers! What makes indie booksellers uniquely placed to judge and recommend the best Aussie books of the past year, is their incredible passion and knowledge, their contribution to
ACT Book of the Year Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno’s book, which covers social and cultural history of political life in Australia from pre-colonisation First Nations systems to the present day, was described as ‘a captivating
Indie Book Awards 2024 The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in the Fiction category are: Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) * Restless Dolly Maunder (Kate Grenville, Text) The Seven (Chris Hammer, A&U) * Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) The Hummingbird Effect (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner) *
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023. The author receives £50,000.00 and was presented with his trophy by the 2022 winner. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of
WINNERS OF THE 2023 PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS Creative Australia announced the winners of the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards at the National Library of Australia in Canberra today. The Awards are the richest literary prize in the nation, with a tax-free prize pool of $600,000 in recognition of the outstanding literary talents of established
2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award winners announced On Thursday 9 November at the Bondi Pavilion, Waverley Council announced that Alison Bashford, author and Professor at the University of New South Wales has been awarded the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her book An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family (Allen Lane). Presented
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION’S 2023 Ned Kelly Awards Winners Exiles, by Jane Harper – Best Crime. Wake, by Shelley Burr – Best Debut. Betrayed, by Sandi Logan – Best True Crime. The Lemon Man, by Keith Bruton – Best International Crime. Exiles has been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read the
The winners of the 2023 Danger Awards have been announced at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. Novelist Chris Hammer, who took out the award for best crime fiction, has won for the second time, having jointly won the award in 2021. This year the awards included the categories of crime fiction debut and people’s choice.
Creative Australia has today announced the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding literary talents of established and emerging Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians. The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards acknowledge the contribution of Australian literature to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. This is the first year that the