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Australian crime author Michael Robotham has been announced as the ambassador for the 2008 Books Alive campaign. More Articles
ABIA Awards shorlist announced
8 May, 2008 The shortlist for this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced.
Text Publishing announces new Young Adult Literature Award
8 May, 2008 Text Publishing has announced a new prize for writers of Young Adult literature.
Therese Rein official patron of 2008 Indigenous Literacy Project
8 May, 2008 This year's Indigenous Literacy Day campaign will be officially launched by patron Therese Rein at an event in Sydney today. 
8 May, 2008 The winners of the 2008 Kibble and Dobbie Awards were announced last night at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sydney. 
8 May, 2008 The popularity of 4 Ingredients continues, with the title staying at number one this week 
5 May, 2008 Three prominent Australians nabbed some of the top spots on our Most Mentioned chart this week
1 May, 2008 4 Ingredients by Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham has crept back to the top of the Bestsellers
Carnegie and Greenaway shortlists
1 May, 2008 The shortlists for this year's Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books have been announced.
Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice shortlist announced
1 May, 2008 The Australian Booksellers Association has announced the shortlisted titles for the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award.
Timely recognition for Winch
29 April, 2008 Tara June Winch has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts initiative
Organisers promise 'dynamic' Ubud writers festival
29 April, 2008 Organisers have promised that the fifth Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will be ‘dynamic and full of surprises'.
New writing prize to honour John Button
29 April, 2008 Plans are underway to commemorate the late politician, author and Melbourne Writers' Festival Chairman John Button with a writing prize.
WA Premier's Prize now worth $110,000
29 April, 2008 The West Australian Premier's Literary Award has become Australia's richest.
29 April, 2008 As you can imagine, Anzac Day-related titles had quite a presence throughout the media this weekend. 
23 April, 2008 As predicted here last week, Marian Keyes has won the duel with Jodi Picoult and takes out number one position this week 
21 April, 2008 A biography of a famous local - possibly Australia's first superstar - came first on our Most Mentioned chart this week.
Children's authors call for action in Darfur
20 April, 2008 Fourteen children's authors, including J K Rowling, Michael Morpugo, Judy Blume and R L Stein, have written an open letter calling for politicians to ‘act on Darfur.'
Hans Christian Andersen awards to Schubiger and Innocenti
20 April, 2008 The winner of the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards were announced at the Bologna Book Fair on 31 March.
'Capote' screenwriter to adapt Nix book?
20 April, 2008 Author Garth Nix looks set to bring his novel Sabriel to the big screen, with plans the possible film of the first book in the ‘Old Kingdom' trilogy to Hollywood studios in late April.
Shortlist for Kibble and Dobbie Awards announced
20 April, 2008 This year's shortlists for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers and the Dobbie Encouragement Award have been announced. 
20 April, 2008 Australian journalist Caroline Overington has won this year's $30,000 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for her account of the $290 million Iraqi oil-for-food scandal. 
20 April, 2008 Biographies of Napoleon and two of ‘history's nobodies' have been named joint winners of this year's National Biography Award.
NSW Prem's awards shortlist announced
20 April, 2008 The NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist was announced today.
Aussie cookbooks score in Gourmand Awards
20 April, 2008 The Gourmand Awards for 2008 have been presented at a ceremony in London, with seven Australian food and wine books receiving prizes, placing Australia ‘in the top 10 countries in the world for food and wine books,' according to the Gourmand judges.
Lonely Planet defends guidebooks
20 April, 2008 Claims that a Lonely Planet contributor plagiarised and made up large sections of three guidebooks, widely reported in the mainstream media in recent days, have been ‘taken out of context,' according to the author at the centre of the controversy. |
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