The Commonwealth Foundation has announced the regional winners for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Regional Winner, Pacific, for the Commonwealth Book Prize is The Last Thread by Michael Sala (Affirm Press). Awarded for best first book, the prize was open to writers who had their first novel (full length work
Three diverse books about “travel” have made me a thoughtful, happy wanderer on the first leg of my trip through Germany, Italy, Spain and Andorra this European spring. I’ve been doing a lot of walking (right now I’m in the Andorran Pyrenees) and, as I also want to focus more on my poetry in coming
The all-female finalists for the Miles Franklin Literary Award are Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds (Picador), Michelle de Kretser for Questions of Travel (Allen & Unwin), Romy Ash for Floundering (Text Publishing), Annah Faulkner for The Beloved (Picador) and Drusilla Modjeska for The Mountain (Vintage). The prize is awarded for the novel judged to
So many prizes; so many wonderful books! Among recent announcements is the Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 International and Canadian Short Lists, with Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden (Giramondo) in the mix. The winners, to be announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards evening on Thursday, June 13, will each be awarded $65,000. The Commonwealth Book
Four authors identified as Australian have been included in the 75-strong longlist for the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. They are Andy Kissane, The Swarm (Puncher and Wattmann), Susan Midalia, An Unknown Sky and Other Stories (The University of Western Australia Publishing), Jennifer Mills, The Rest Is Weight (University of Queensland Press) and
What do Madame Bovary, A Room of One’s Own, Pride and Prejudice, Love in a Cold Climate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Wuthering Heights have in common? They’re all Pink Penguins and if you buy one of these titles (among others) you can help place Breast Care Nurses in communities across Australia. Penguin has teamed up
The 2013 longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award sees the largest number of female authors selected since the longlist was first introduced in 2005. From an original list of 73 novels, half of which were written by female authors, the judges selected ten novels for the longlist. It includes eight female authors, five first
At Sappho on this summery Sunday reading is it. Students, lecturers, travellers, shoppers, Goths and glam girls eyeball newspapers, books and screens. A middle-aged guy with John Lennon glasses and a soft linen shirt sips red wine and cracks open the creamy pages of a biography from the stack of books he’s just purchased. I’m
The Stella Prize has announced its first shortlist, including two authors among contenders for other grand prizes. Michelle de Kretser is also in the running for the ALS Gold Medal with Questions of Travel and Carrie Tiffany is in the long list for the Women’s Prize for Fiction with Mateship with Birds. Read more about six
The shortlist for the 2013 ALS Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Darkness on the Edge of Town Jessie Cole (Fourth Estate) Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin) Montebello Robert Drewe (Hamish Hamilton) Lost Voices Christopher Koch (Fourth Estate) The Fine Colour of Rust P. A. O’Reilly (HarperCollins) The ALS
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