by Akina Hansen | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2022 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Acclaimed writer and poet Cate Kennedy won first place for her short story ‘Art and Life’. The Furphy Literary Award celebrates and recognises the best Australian short stories. The award honours...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Over half the library books borrowed in 2022 were by Australian authors. Continuing an upward trend from the past three years. Additionally, the last 12 months saw an increase in E-Loans, which suggests digital library books which increased in popularity during the...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Cinemas are now playing the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing. The story follows Catherine ‘Kya’ Clark, played by Daisy Edgar Jones (Normal People). The film is set in the 1950s in North Carolina, and follows abandoned child Kya, now...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Australian author and essayist, Frank Moorhouse, best known for the ‘Edith’ trilogy, has died aged 83. Born in Nowra in 1938, Frank Moorhouse went on to work in newspapers and arts administration until pursuing a full-time writing career in the 1970s....
by Akina Hansen | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The Awards were established in 2010 by Craig Sisterson to celebrate and recognise excellence in writing within this genre. ‘A dozen years...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The film rights for Charlotte Wood’s novel, The Weekend, has been optioned to Brouhaha Entertainment. The Weekend was first published in 2019 and won the Australian Book Industry Award for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for several...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ruth Ozeki’s novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Women’s Prize for Fiction seeks to empower women of by showcasing the very best writing from women anywhere in the world, regardless of their age, race, nationality or...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Christopher Waltz is set to play filmmaker Billy Wilder in a film adaptation of Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe. Mr Wilder and Me is a novel about fame, time and nostalgia and was published in 2020 by Penguin UK. The novel follows a young woman called Calista who...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The Awards celebrate the creativity, skill and dedication of authors and publishers in brining Australian books to readers. The winners are chose through a process of selection, first...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
NT Writers Festival returns to beautiful Larrakia land for four days of talks and immersive events celebrating story, language and culture shaped by place. Founded in 1999, the NTWF is the Northern Territory’s premier literary showcase. The festival seeks to bring...
