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The Miles Franklin shortlist for 2013 has been announced – and in a reverse of the much-talked-about ‘sausagefests’ of 2009 and 2011, all five of the shortlisted authors are women.This is the first …
The first ever Stella Prize for a work by an Australian woman writer was awarded last night, to Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship with Birds. Carrie Tiffany: ‘The Stella is…
This year’s Miles Franklin longllist was announced in an unusual – but thoroughly contemporary – way.The covers of the nine longlisted books were revealed, one by one, on Twitter, in what Crikey
Australia’s first major literary prize for women’s writing, The Stella Prize, will be officially launched in 2013. One woman with a book published in 2012 will receive $50,000 in prize money.The…
There was a suitably festive atmosphere at the Regent Ballroom for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards dinner last night, as writers swapped their standard work wear of tracksuit pants and…
Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Bring up the Bodies, making her the first woman – and the first British person – to win it twice. (The only other writers to win the prize twice…
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day – and time to announce the winner and shortlist for the biennal Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing.Anita Heiss was announced as the winner…
We don’t exactly judge a book by its cover here at the Wheeler Centre … but we do appreciate a good-looking book cover, nonetheless.The Australian Publishers' Association celebrates the best in…
The shortlist has been announced for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK-based literary prize for the best book for a woman writer, now in its 17th year.Contenders are:Half Blood Blues by Esi E…
What’s bigger news than the awarding of a major prize? The decision not to award a major prize. The literary world is agog with the news that the Pulitzer prize for fiction will not be awarded in…
Arts lovers around Australia have now digested the news that brand new Queensland premier Campbell Newman has axed the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, as a cost-cutting measure.The move, which …
The longlist for Australia’s most prestigious (and controversial) literary award has been announced – and last year’s short (all-male) shortlist has been followed by a long longlist, dominated…
Christine Gordon, bookseller and Stella Prize committee member, delivered our Lunchbox/Soapbox on International Women’s Day, to a rousing crowd response.She talked about why sharing women’s stories…
On International Women’s Day last year, Australian novelist Kirsten Tranter wrote for us about the under-representation of women writers in the literary pages. A month later, the all-male Miles…
The award-winning book, Cement Garden Eminent British novelist Ian McEwan has been awarded Israel’s prestigious Jerusalem Prize. It’s the latest of a long list of…
Coming from his final 7:30 Report, Kerry O'Brien has been honoured at last night’s Walkley Awards. O'Brien was awarded the Walkley for journalistic leadership as well as the prize for best interview …
UK cover for The Shape of Her Earlier we reported that Christos Tsiolkas was in the running for the the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award for the worst piece of raunchy…
Not sexy writing from Tsiolkas Christos Tsiolkas joins the ranks of great novelists with his addition to the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2010.The prize…
The winners of the US National Book Awards were announced yesterday with several upsets and controversial decisions.Peter Carey was again pipped at the post for the fiction award by Jaimy Gordon for …
IMPAC nominee Craig Silvey Several Australian writers are on the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist including newer names such as MJ Hyland for This Is How, Kalinda…
The winners for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced:FictionDog Boy by Eva HornungWhat the judges said: “Hornung challenges us to believe that an abandoned child in a decaying…
It’s been a nervous couple of months for authors on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlist, but on Monday Julia Gillard will announce the winners – after a wait of almost 4 months.The long…
We’re very quick to celebrate our sporting culture as a reflection of the very qualities we think of asAustralian. But isn’t football sexist? Isn’t it racist? Isn’t it homophobic? This is a footy…
This Thursday’s More Than a Game panel looks set to be the grand final of art vs footy as players from both codes pull on their respective guernseys for what promises to be the game of the season.Wea…
Just when you’re recovering from the Booker surprise, the National Book Foundation (NBF) has announced the finalist for the US-based National Book Awards and closer to home Inside a Dog has…
The Man Booker prize has been awarded to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question.Chair of Judges, Andrew Motion praised it as “a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very…
While the bookies reckon the prize will go to Tom McCarthy’s novel C, there’s still plenty of conversation around the world’s most influential prize.Australian critic and blogger, James Bradley…
Ahead of next week’s Booker announcement betting on the prize has been suspended because as the New York Times states “suspicion that [the] award’s winner may be a foregone conclusion”.The betting…
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for what judges have called “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, …
Les Murray’s latest, Taller When Prone Poet Les Murray is favourite Australian in the race for the Nobel Prize according to British bookmakers Ladbrokes.The bookies put…
The culmination of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards is the announcement of the winners and this year promises to be one of the best years yet. MC Casey Bennetto guides you through the…
Tonight’s presentation of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards will end a month of speculation for those on the shortlist.The most talked about prize is the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction with…
It begins with Phillip Pullman raging at the Man Booker shortlist in the UK’s Telegraph for over-using present tense which he sees as a “wretched fad [that]… drastically narrows the options…
Mantel winning the Man Booker Last year’s winner of the Man Booker has written a great piece on her difficult relationship with prizes for Intelligent Life.Though Mantel’s …
The Man Booker shortlist was announced last night and includes Peter Carey, but has dropped Christos Tsiolkas.The shortlist also included Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut, Howard Jacobson, Andrea Levy…
And the books shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards YA Prize are: Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar Swerve by Phillip Gwynne Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams Phew. I don’t have to …
Shortlisted for the Unpublished Manuscript Prize, Michelle Aung Thin Victoria’s biggest prize for writing – the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – has announced the
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are in their 26th year and to celebrate the shortlist announcement, the Wheeler Centre presents a very special MWF event. Six of the shortlisted writers…
Australian Booker nominee Christos Tsiolkas is cutting a swathe through Brit lit on his current visit to the UK with appearances at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.Not only is The Slap a…
As the Booker Prize longlist was announced last week, judge Andrew Motion concluded that “no one was writing much about sex any more” according to the Guardian.Former poet laureate Motion has a…
The weekend paper saw the announcement of the Age Book of the Year shortlist.In the fiction category, Cate Kennedy’s debut novel The World Beneath got the nod as it “cleverly plays with the…
Maria Tumarkin reads from Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter, a personal exploration back to her roots in Russia and the Ukraine. From trains to alcoholism, it’s a trip into the post-Soviet world …
Writer/illustrator Sally Rippin On his way out, Kevin Rudd selected an interesting shortlist for this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize.Along with fiction (J. M. Coetzee…
The Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist has been announced. Among those nominated is Sonya Hartnett for her book Butterfly. Sonya will be speaking with 3RRR's Donna Morabito next week at the…
Thomas Keneally's novel The People's Train, Peter Carey's Parrot And Olivier In America and Alex Miller's Lovesong have all been long-listed for this year's Miles Franklin award. …
