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Australian Literary Award News

Just Shocking Clean-Sweep of Aussie Children's Choice Awards

Any Griffith's and Terry Denton's Just Shocking, has won all six Australian Choice Awards adding the Victorian YABBA and Western Australia WAYBRA to the NSW Koalas, QLDS Bilbys, NT Krocs and ACT Cool Awards. No wonder Stephanie Myer books are doing so well, they have captured the mid to upper teen plus market winning the WAYBRAs amongst other. Go you vampires.......

Australian Raised Nam Le Takes the £60,000 (au$140,000) Dylan Thomas Prize

11th November - Swansea. A 29-year-old writer originally from Vietnam is the second winner of one of the world's biggest literary awards, the £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. Nam Le , who grew up in Australia, lives in New York, and next year apparently plans to move to the UK, beat five rivals with his debut collection of short stories The Boat. More | Tragic Blog- Rare Treat as Boat Comes In

The 7th 'Nib' Award Shortlists

5th November- With a new sponsor, the Copyright Agency Limited on-board, the $20,000 CAL Waverley Library Prize for Literature has shown it's hand for 2008 with a strong shortlist . More

Australia-Asia Literary Award Shortlists- It's that Dog and Fundamentalist Again

30th October- Michelle de Kretser's widely admired The Lost Dog and the 2007 Booker Shortlisted Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist are amongst the final five for the final five for the nation's richest literary prize for a single work. More

Koala Children's Choice Winners- Just Shocking!: Bilbys Children Choice Award Winners; Western Australian Premier's Winners for 2008; Tim Winton's, Breath , Wins the Inaugural $19,000 Australian ‘Indie’ Award'; Territory historian wins NT's top literary prize
Petrov Affair Novel- Document Z, Wins $50,000 Australian/Vogel Literary Award

Queensland Premier's Literary Prize Winners: Controversial Requiem for a Beast Wins Young Adults Award. Garner's Spare Room Wins Fiction
Inaugural PM's Literary Award Winners: Winners Ned Kelly 'The Neddies' Crime Book Awards
Winners Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners- Age Book of the Year. Winton's Breath Picks-up First of Many
Winners Children's Book Council of Australia: Franklin Winner: Steve Carroll Wins with The Time We Have Taken
International Fame for Shaun Tan's, The Arrival: Wins Prestigious Boston Globe: Winners NSW Premier's Literary Awards
2008 Adelaide Festival Literary Awards -

International Book Award Headlines

2008 Man Booker Prize Winner White Tiger: 2008 Costa Book Awards Shortlists- Game On; New £50,000 Warwick Prize- Complexity Personified
Joseph Boyden wins 2008 Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize: Dublin IMPAC International Longlists
Blue Peter Shortlists -Delicious as Always: Boyz Rule BritLit Awards 2008 OK? John Llewellyn Rhys Shortlists
Guardian First Book Shortlist

Kidslit- UK Booktrusted Early Years Winners-: Victorian Melodrama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins UK £30,000 Samuel Johnson prize
Rushdie's Midnight's Children Wins Best Ever Booker
Frances Fyfield Wins £20,000 CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger-
Arthurian Legend Wins Britain's 'Booker of the Playground' The Carnegie Medal: Emily Gravetts Brave Mouse Wins Kate Greenaway Illustrators Medal for 2008-
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: USA Caldecott Medal Winner for 2008
USA Book Critics Circle Quality Winners

Book Award Tragic Blog: Award tragic Blog - Guardian First Book Award: Comparing Aardvarks with Apples?; Book Tragic Blog Boyz Rule BritLit Highbrow Award 2008. OK?
B log: Booker Vigilantes? Where's Wally the 'Poncey' Academic Judge?: Blog Commentary: A Torrent of Mystery Awards

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