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ASA Announces Picture Book Illustrators’ Grants
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced five recipients of Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative Grants for 2012. The initiative ‘aims to establish a “best-practice... |
16/05/2012 |
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National Biography Award to ANU Historian
Dr Martin Thomas, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University, is the winner of the 2012 National Biography Award. Thomas won the $25,000 award for his 2011 biography, The Many Worlds of R. ... |
15/05/2012 |
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Josephine Ulrick Winners Announced
The winners of the 2012 Josephine Ulrick prizes have been announced in Queensland. The prizes, for a short story and for poetry, are administered by Griffith University's School of Humanities. The 2012 literature prize was awarded to Matthew Lamb, editor ... |
9/05/2012 |
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Miles Franklin Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been revealed by the award’s trustee, The Trust Company. This year’s short list comprises five books, including three by women, one of whom is a first-time novelist. The shortlisted ... |
7/05/2012 |
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Jeanine Leane Shortlisted for New Commonwealth Prize
Jeanine Leane is one of four Australians shortlisted for the inaugural Commonwealth Book Prize. Leane, a former co-ordinator of AustLit’s BlackWords Research Community, is shortlisted for her intertwined collection of stories, Purple Threads. Other ... |
1/05/2012 |
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Vogel Win for Melbourne Writer
Paul D. Carter, a Melbourne secondary school teacher, is the winner of the 2012 Australian/Vogel&rsq... |
30/04/2012 |
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Remembering Bruce Bennett
Friends and colleagues of the late Professor Bruce Bennett are invited to share their thoughts and memories via the comments function on AustLit’s News Blog. We begin with the following words from US scholar Nicholas Birns: 'With the passing of ... |
17/04/2012 |
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Champion of Australian Literature Dies in Canberra
Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett, AO, has died at his home in Canberra. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Bennett was a graduate of the Universities of Western Australia, Oxford and London. He taught at the University of Western Australia from 1968 to 1992 and ... |
16/04/2012 |
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Queensland Literary Awards to Proceed under New Management
Members of Queensland’s literary and arts communities, under the guidance of writers Matthew Condon and Krissy Kneen, have banded together to ensure that literary awards will be offered in their home state in 2012. The Queensland Literary Awards ... |
11/04/2012 |
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NSW Premier’s Awards ‘Reinvigorated’ Following Review
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell has announced that the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the state’s History Awards are to be managed in future by the State Library of New South Wales. Winners of the 2012 awards will be announced ... |
10/04/2012 |
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2012 CBCA Awards Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 3 April. Thirty-five books have been nominated across six categories. No Bears by Meg McKinley and Leila Rudge is the only ... |
4/04/2012 |
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Carey Wins Oxford’s Bodley Medal
Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries’ 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to ‘to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the ... |
3/04/2012 |