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2011 TASMANIAN BOOK AWARD WINNERS
The Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre - $25 000 Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Random House, 2008) - The Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer - $5 000 What Now, Tilda B? by Katherine Lomer (University of Queensland Press, 2010). The University of Tasmania Prize for the best book by a Tasmanian publisher - $5 000 Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight (Pardalote Press, 2008)
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2011 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTS
The 2011 NSW Premier's shortlisted writers were selected from more than 570 nominations across 10 categories. Prizes of up to $315,000 will be presented at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards dinner on 16 May, the first celebratory event of the 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival (16-22 May).
For those who like to get involved, this years People Choice Award is open to all residents of Australia for the first time. Just get your book club to read the books on the Christina Stead short list . Voting is via the website www.pla.nsw.gov.au (voting closes at midnight on 8 May). Come on! That's only a book a week and $120 cost between now and when voting closes. Thought about releasing the Stead shortlist a bit earlier oh learned judge types and administrative persons? See the full lists here
THE COMMONWEALTH'S WRITERS' PRIZE - internationally recognised for promoting ground-breaking works of fiction from across the globe, has announced an eclectic mix of writers from the four regions of the Commonwealth who will also be heading to the final stages of the competition at Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.
The 2011 regional prize winners are:
South East Asia and Pacific:
Best Book: That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Australia)
Best First Book: A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (New Zealand
Africa: Best Book: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Best First Book: Happiness is a four-letter word by Cynthia Jele (South Africa)
Caribbean and Canada Best Book: Room by Emma Donoghue (Canada)
Best First Book: Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best (Canada)
South Asia and Europe:
Best Book:The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (UK)
Best First Book: Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller (UK)
The final programme of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize will bring together the regional winners from Africa, Caribbean and Canada, South Asia and Europe, and South East Asia and Pacific, at Sydney Writers’ Festival (16-22 May). The overall winners of Best Book and Best First Book.
2011 Tasmanian Book Prizes Shortlists - A biennial prize established in 2005 to celebrate works published in the previous two years. The prizes are given in three categories. Tasmania Book Prize ($25,000), the Margaret Scott Prize ($5000), and the University of Tasmania Prize ($5000). In the running for the main prize are:
In Search of Hobart by Peter Timms (New South, October 2009) - Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Random House, 2008) -What Now, Tilda B? by Katherine Lomer (University of Queensland Press, 2010). Full lists . Winners in April.
2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners. Each of the winners receives $100,000 - Fiction Eva Hornung for her novel Dog Boy; Non-fiction is Grace Karskens'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney .
This year the Prime Minister's Literary Awards included two new categories; Young adult fiction won byBill Condon's Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex Godand the Children's fiction winner Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood Past Winners of PM's Literary Awards and full shortlists
$80,000 Booker Prize 2010 Winner - Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question. More Booker
Michael Cathcart has won the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009 (awarde in 2010)in front of a strong shortlist. Cathcart won for his book The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Text). Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and the H.T. Priestley Medal. Full lists
Australian book award Winners
$20,000 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature "The Nib" - Former NSW Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Leader of the House turned author, Andrew Tink, has won the 2010 award for his meticulous researched biography, William Charles Wentworth . Mr. Tink won in front of one of the most eclectic Nib shortlists in it's nine year history. Full lists and judges report.
Patrick White Award - Southern Highlands writer, David Foster, has won the $18,000 prize for 2010. Award Tragic Blog Commentary | Past winners list
2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners. Each of the winners receives $100,000 - Fiction Eva Hornung for her novel Dog Boy; Non-fiction is Grace Karskens'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney .
This year the Prime Minister's Literary Awards included two new categories; Young adult fiction won byBill Condon's Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex Godand the Children's fiction winner Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood Past Winners of PM's Literary Awards and full shortlists
$80,000 Booker Prize 2010 Winner - Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question. More Booker
Michael Cathcart has won the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009 (awarde in 2010)in front of a strong shortlist. Cathcart won for his book The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Text). Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and the H.T. Priestley Medal. Full lists
KOALA 2010 Winners - Usual bunch of suspects have won over the children yet again , Picture Book Fearless, Colin Thompson & Sarah Davis, (ABC Books) Younger Readers Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow, Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, (Pan Macmillan) more Older Readers The Battle for Ronda, Emily Rodda, (Scholastic) Fiction for Years 7-9 Boy Overboard, Morris Gleitzman (Penguin).
2010 NSW Premier's History Award Winners The General History Prize: Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigeno us People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. More The NSW Community and Regional History Prize: Randwick (Pauline Curby, Randwick Municipal Council) The Australian History Prize: Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (Dr Bain Attwood, Melbourne University Publishing). The Young People's History Prize: The Night They Stormed Eureka (Jackie French, HarperCollins). More
CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Shortlists - Known affectionately as the 'The Nib' the prize recognises excellence in research in the creation of a literary work. Full lists
The Walkley Foundation and the Media, Entertainment Arts Alliance have announced the long-list finalists for the Walkley Book Award. The award celebrates excellence in non-fiction literature and long-form journalism. Full List
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted forAmerica's ultra-prestigious National Book Awards . Full US National Book Award Finalists list.
Victorian Premier's Winners - Miles Franklin winner, Truth by Peter Temple has finished in front of a very strong field has taken out the Vic Premiers 2010 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ($30,000). Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life by Brenda Walker won the Nettie Palmer for non Fiction ($30,000). Full winners list
2010 - John Button Prize Winner - Peter Sutton, The Politics of Suffering. In this groundbreaking book, Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? More
2010 Children's Book Council of Australia Winners (CBCA) - 2010 Winners include David Metzentehen for Jarvis 24,: Odo Hirsch for Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool; , Lisa Shannon and Emma Quay for Bear & Chook by the Sea; Roger Gregory Rogers for, The Hero of Little Street and, Peter Macinnis for Australian Backyard Explorer- Full shortlists and book info
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Winners - 14 category winners including J.M. Coetzee's Summertime , Southern Highlands poet Mark Tredinnick for The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, Clive Hamilton for Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, Ian Hoskins for Sydney Harbour: A history, and Richard Yaxley for Drink the Air - full lists
Crime Writer Wins Miles Franklin for2010 Peter Temple has been awarded the Miles Franklin LiteraryAward for 2010. The author was was presented this year's prize of $42,000 for his novel Truth | Other Shortlisted
Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010 Shortlist - 29 Australian titles have made it onto the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists. For the first time, Young Adult Fiction and Children’s Fiction categories have been added to the awards which are worth $100,000 to each of the category winners. Full Lists
2010 Ned Kelly Crime Book Awards- Pitcairn: Paradise Lost by Kathy Marks (True Crime) : King of the Cross by Mark Dapin (Best First Fiction) ; Wyatt by Gary Disher (Fiction) More
2010 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards Brisbane writer Marianne Delacourt received the Davitt (Adult Fiction) for her debut crime novel for Sharp Shooter; Justine Larbalestier won the Davitt (Children’s & Young Adult Fiction ) for Liar; Sydney journalists Candace Sutton and Ellen Connolly shared the Davitt (True Crime) for Lady Killer while prolific Melbourne author, Kerry Greenwood was awarded the Davitt’s (Readers’ Choice), as voted by the 500 members of Sisters in Crime, for Forbidden Fruit. More
Australian Christian Book of the Year Shortlist - The Australian Christian Book of the Year Award is given annually to an original book written by an Australian citizen normally resident in Australia and published by an Australian publisher. The award recognises and encourages excellence in Australian Christian writing. 2010 Shortlist
The Kibble Literary Award Winner
The Dobbie Literary Award
June 2- The Dobbie Award recognises the work of an Australian female writer published for the first time. Deborah Forster has won the 2010 prize for The Book of Emmett Other shortlisted: Karen Hitchcock for Little White Slips ;Robyn Mundy for The Nature of Ice
-Tragic Blog: Golden Doves Announce Kibble and Dobbie Award Winners
Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlists- The local book industry's moment in the sun as they celebrate the best in Australian literature. It's huge and the selections are generally a predictor to what will turn-up in State based awards later in the year. More | Blog Comment
2010 NSW Premiers' Literary Award Winners
National Biography Award 2010 Winner
Clare writer and Flinders University Professor Brian Matthews has won the National Biography Award for, Manning Clark A Life.The $20,000 National Biography Award is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award’s benefactors, Geoffrey Cains and Michael Crouch AO. Other shortlisted
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature- The winners of this biennial award are delicious with the superb Tales from Outer Suburbia,by Shaun Tan taking out the $10,000 Premier's award. Full winners list.
Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2010 is Kristina Olsson, for her book The China Garden (UQP). "Without feeling the need to resolve every absence or mystery, Olsson gently suggests that it is always possible to make new things out of the past, however fractured or painful.” from the judges' reading report. More
NSW History Award 2009 Winners- Australian History Prize ($15,000) Winner : Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Robin Gerster, Scribe) Prize ($15,000)General History Prize ($15,000) Winner: The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Warwick Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Press)
NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) Winner: Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick’s College, Goulburn (David Bollen, UNSW Press) Young People’s History Prize ($15,000) Winner: * Captain Cook’s Apprentice (Anthony Hill, Penguin)
Australian Vogel - Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man and Kristel Thornell’s Night Street shared top honours. Both manuscripts will be published by Allen & Unwin. More
Neddies' 2009 - 30 Aug- The Ned Kelly Crime Awards.Tall Man won again. A tie in the Best Fiction category with just three contenders- Pikers Details
Tall Man by Chloe Hopper Wins $20,000 John Button Prize- for her book The Tall Man -- Death and Life on Palm Island , about the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island. Book details + shortlists
Sisters in Crime Davitt Award Winners - Tall Man won the Non-fiction . A Beautiful Place To Die, the debut novel by Sydney-based filmmaker turned crime writer, Malla Nunn, best Adult Fiction. Details
