by Paula | Jul 15, 2015 | News
The winners of the 2015 Kibble and Dobbie Awards were announced at an event at the State Library of New South Wales today. Joan London won the $30, 000 Kibble Literary Award for established writers with her novel The Golden Age (Vintage Australia). Ellen van Neervan...
by Paula | Jun 24, 2015 | News
Author, actor and playwright Sofie Laguna has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep. Congratulations Sofie! The $60,000 prize was announced at an event in Melbourne on Tuesday night. The winning title was...
by Paula | May 24, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced at the Australian Booksellers Association Conference at the State Library of Victoria. The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie...
by Paula | May 6, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced and four of the five titles are by women writers. The shortlist was chosen from a longlist of 10; seven of those were written by women. The shortlisted titles are: The Golden...
by Paula | May 3, 2015 | News
Awards season is in full swing and there have been oodles of announcements during the past few weeks. These include the longlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal and the shortlists for the eleven categories of the NSW Premier’s Literary...