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Follow the Road
Researchers interested in where Australian literature is going should sign up for the 'Australian Literature - The Road Ahead 2013 Conference'. The conference will run from 20-21 June, 2013, and will be held at Macquarie University in Sydney. The ...
08/01/2013
9:51:20 AM
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John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers
When the winners are announced at this year's Express Media Awardson 7 December,the 2012 winners of the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers will be announced as well. Marsden(pictured, at left) will be on hand to present the prizes. The ...
19/09/2012
3:29:21 PM
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'The Sapphires' Wins the AWGIE Award
Apart from being two-word titles starting with S, what do The Sapphires, The Straits and The Slap have in common? They are some of this year's AWGIE Award winners. Presented annually by the Australian Writers’ Guild, the AWGIEs are the only ...
04/09/2012
11:23:53 AM
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So You Think You Know Australian Fiction?
Challenging pre-conceived ideas is always a tricky business. But sacred cows are meat and drink to academics, and Dr Katherine Bode, in her project, Reading By Numbers, has not shirked the job of challenging accepted ideas about Australian novels and ...
27/07/2012
7:37:41 AM
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Australian Writers Back in Print
Books by even well-known authors such asMiles Franklin, Marcus Clarke or Henry Handel Richardson can be hard to find in bookshops. The advent of a new publishing series, TextClassics, and the launch this month of an all-new imprint, House of Books, will ...
19/06/2012
11:14:04 AM