AustLit
History
The Indie Awards were established in 2008 by Leading Edge Books, a buying and marketing group for more than 200 Australian independent bookshops. Panels of judges (booksellers and readers) choose winners from four book categories – fiction, debut fiction, non-fiction and children’s. Independent booksellers from around the country then vote to select their favourite book for the year, which wins Book of the Year.
Source: http://www.indies.com.au/ Sighted: 3/12/2013.
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The Indie Awards, sponsored by Australia's independent booksellers, were first offered in 2008. Eligible books had to be published between July in the previous year and June. (e.g. The 2008 awards were for books published between July 2007 and June 2008.)
Beginning in 2011, the awards were offered to books published in the previous calendar year (i.e. the 2011 awards were for books published in 2010). No awards were offered in 2010.
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Works About this Award
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Women, Memoirs Dominate Indie Book Award Shortlists 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 January 2016; (p. 29) -
The Bush Takes Indie Book of the Year Prize 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 March 2015; (p. 14) -
Going Bush Proves a Winner for Watson 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 March 2015; (p. 31) The Age , 26 March 2015; (p. 11) -
Indie Awards Show Passion for Printed Books Is Alive 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 29 January 2015; (p. 8) -
A Pair of Ragged Claws 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 March 2013; (p. 19) 'The literary awards season shifted into gear this week with the Indie Awards and the release of the Miles Franklin longlist. The former, voted on by Australia's independent booksellers, has a habit of picking books that will go on to do well with prize judges and civilian readers alike. We also have a shortlist for the inaugural Stella Prize for Australian women's literature, set up partly to counter a perceived male bias in the Miles Franklin, and a longlist for its British-based inspiration, the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize). It's early days -- we have the various state-based book prizes and the refreshingly idiosyncratic Prime Minister's Literary Awards to come -- but already some works look like being major players throughout the awards season, just as Anna Funder's All That I Am and Gillian Mears's Foal's Bread were last year. Melbourne writer Carrie Tiffany is on the Miles Franklin, Stella and Women's Prize lists for her second novel, Mateship with Birds. London-based ML Stedman is in the running for the Miles Franklin and the Women's Prize for her debut novel The Light Between Oceans and Sri Lankan-born Sydney author Michelle de Kretser is a Miles Franklin and Stella contender for Questions of Travel. I won't be at all surprised if these three books fight out the big local literary awards. Stedman has a head start after picking up the awards for best debut fiction and overall book of the year at the Indies. '(Abstract from publisher)
