Australian Winners
2009 Prime Minster's Literary Award Winners
The Boat Comes in for Nam Le -Again
The winner of the 2009 PM's Fiction award is Nam Le (right) for his collection of short stories The Boat.
Two works and three authors shared the Non-Fiction award. Evelyn Juers for House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann - ; and Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line - Details
Poet's Prose Wins 'The NIB' - 25th Nov, Poet Robert Gray's lyrical family memoir, The Land I Came Through Last , has won this year prize in front of a strong shortlist
Known affectionately as the 'The Nib' , The $20,000 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature,acknowledges excellence in research by Australian authors writing literary works of all genres. The award is sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited’s (CAL) Cultural Fund. More | Commentary Award Tragic Blog
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- 2009 Northern Territory Literary Awards Winners -
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- As Big as the State Itself- Queensland Premier's
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2009 Miles Franklin Winner
Breath - WINNER By Tim Winton
When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. More
2009 Barbara Jefferis Winner
The Spare Room by Helen Garner, Text
"The Spare Room" offers a powerful, witty, and taut story about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the other called to care for her- more
Australian Book Industry Literary Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Award Winner
Winner: The Slap, written by Christos Tsiolkas, published by Allen & Unwin
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of
people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced
Children & Teen Award News
Bes of American Children's Literature
Jan 21- A huge day in the world of American Children and Teen Book Awards as a multiplicity of literary prizes are announced during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting. Full lists
The winners of the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award are:
Audrey Goes to Town and Winter of Grace were selected from seven short-listed books and from more than 100 entries of books for children published between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2009. More
2009 Australian Children's Choice Winners-The last of the Children'sChoice Winners for the year are now in including the classic Are We There Yet by Alison Lester (NSW Koalas). Well, are we? - Cool (ACT ) | Bilbys (QLDS) | Koala (NSW) | WAYBRA (WA) | YABBA (VIC +) -
Childrens Book Council of Australia 2009 Winners- Stunning as always
2009 NZ Post Children's Winners - Kate De Goldi's, The 10PM Question, NZ Post Book of the Year and YA Award. The Were-Nana written by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson the Children's Choice Award. Seven winners Details.
Librarians Make Their Choice- LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards celebrate New Zealand writers and illustrators. Esther Glen Award (Fiction) | Russell Clarke Award (Illustration) | Elsie Locke (Nonfiction | Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori
Margaret Mahy Wins America's Boston Globe Horn swith Bubble Trouble
UK Booktrust Early Year Winners Three categories honoured; Baby Book Award; Pre-School Award; Best Emerging Illustrator. More
Winner 2009 UK Carnegie Medal SIOBHAN DOWD,Bog Child
(Age range: 12+)
This is a beautifully written and controlled novel, strong on dialogue but with some beautiful descriptive phrases as well. More
2009 Winner The Booktrust Teenage Prize - Neil
Gaiman's The Graveyard Book This chillingly fantastical tale is Gaiman’s first full-length novel since his internationally bestselling and highly acclaimed Coraline. Bod is alive…but his friends are not. Raised by ghosts, werewolves and other ethereal graveyard inhabitants, how will Bod reconcile the world of the living and the dead? More
2009 Canadian Governor-General Literary Awards Children’s Literature - Winner
Caroline Pignat, Ottawa, Greener Grass: The Famine Years. follows the disintegration of the Byrne family during Ireland’s Great Famine of 1847, when landlords ruled without mercy, children could be taken away to prison, and thousands were left to starve. A timeless story of courage, family loyalty and the resilience of the human spirit.
Hervé Bouchard, Saguenay (Quebec), Harvey. (Les Éditions de la Pastèque; distributed by Socadis) Hervé Bouchard makes us feel the confusion and helplessness of a little boy faced with the death of his father. His surprising and extremely sensitive writing is deeply moving. Through a series of poetically powerful metaphors, he allows us the freedom to explore the multiple layers of his story.
Children’s Literature – Illustration
Jirina Marton, Colborne (Ontario), Bella’s Tree, text by Janet Russell.
(Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)

Australian Tale Wins UK John Llwellyn Rhys Literary Prize - 
the Way (1984), was published when she was just fifteen years old, and since then she has written many more books of fiction.