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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 11:42:31 |
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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 12:51:52 |
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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 12:57:00 |
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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 10:07:00 |
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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 13:55:13 |
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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 11:52:32 |
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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 14:17:00 |
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2012 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Cancelled
New Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has decided not to proceed with the state’s literary awards in 2012. In a brief statement on 3 April, the website for the awards simply acknowledges ‘all the sponsors, judges, stakeholders, entrants and ... |
4/04/2012 15:53:26 |
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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 12:05:17 |
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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 10:47:31 |
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2012 Miles Franklin Longlist Announced
The Trust Company, as Trustee of The Franklin Fund, has announced the longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. From a pool of sixty-one entries, the judges have longlisted thirteen novels for the $50,000 prize. The longlist comprises: ... |
29/03/2012 12:29:28 |
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Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship Winner Announced
Mary Hoban is the winner of the inaugural Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Hoban to continue work on her biography of Tasmanian-born pioneerJulia Sorell. The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established in 2011 ‘to ... |
15/03/2012 11:49:59 |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Winners Announced
The 2012 winners of the Festival Awards for Literature have been announced in Adelaide. The overall Premier’s Award, and the fiction prize, was won by Kim Scott for That Deadman Dance. Mark McKenna won the non-fiction prize for his biography of ... |
5/03/2012 13:14:24 |
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Victorian Government Announces Indigenous Honour Roll Inductees
The Victorian government has established an Indigenous Honour Roll to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of Indigenous people ‘whose efforts have significantly impacted society’. The names of the first twenty inductees have been revealed. ... |
22/02/2012 11:25:44 |
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US Outstanding Books List Recognises Australian Writers
USBBY, the United States section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), has announced its ‘2012 list of the 36 most outstanding international books for children and teens’. USBBY sought titles that would help American ... |
15/02/2012 11:21:50 |
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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 ... |
14/02/2012 15:24:46 |
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Gleeson Awarded 2011 Dromkeen Medal
Libby Gleeson is the winner of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The annual award is presented to ‘an Australian citizen for a significant contribution to the appreciation and development of children’s literature in Australia’. Gleeson is the ... |
6/02/2012 15:20:21 |
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Inaugural AACTAs Announced
The inaugural winners of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced during three separate events between 15 and 31 January 2012. As anticipated, the box office favourite Red Dog — an adaptation of a Louis ... |
1/02/2012 11:52:16 |
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US Recognition for Silvey’s ‘Jasper Jones’
Craig Silvey’s 2009 novel Jasper Jones continues to garner praise. After winning several high profile Australian awards in 2009-2010 and being shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Western Australian tale has now ... |
31/01/2012 15:02:58 |
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Australia Day Honours
Writers from the worlds of academia, libraries, theatre and the media were among those recognised in the 2012 Australia Day Honours list. Those awarded include: Stuart Macintyre (AO) for distinguished service to the social sciences and to the ... |
30/01/2012 14:45:28 |