NYOR Winning Titles Announced
The National Year of Reading project has announced the titles of the ‘eight books that together paint a picture of the Australian people and the land we live in’. More than 16,000 people voted via the ABC website and at their local libraries to select the book best representing their state or territory during the 2012 Year of Reading.
The eight books are: Smoke and Mirrors by Kel Robertson (Australian Capital Territory),The Idea of Home by John Hughes (New South Wales), Listening to Country by Ros Moriarty (Northern Territory), The White Earth by Andrew McGahan (Queensland), Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr (South Australia), Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Tasmania), Well Done, Those Men by Barry Heard (Victoria) and Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (Western Australia).
Following the announcement, the chair of the National Year of Reading founders, Margaret Allen, expressed that hope that ‘thousands of readers will take a journey around Australia through the pages of these eight books and come out of it with an even greater depth of understanding about what it means to be Australian’.
Further background on the ‘Our Story’ project is available here. For more information on the National Year of Reading click here.