by Akina Hansen | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The shortlist for the 2020 Booker Prize was recently announced, celebrating the most noteworthy books published in the last year. Beloved Aussie author Lee Child is among the judging panel, who together shortlisted three authors from the United States, and one each...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The presidential memoirs of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, will be published in two volumes. The first volume, titled A PROMISED LAND, is scheduled for global release on Tuesday, 17 November, 2020, and will be issued simultaneously in 25...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Read our feature on Fourteen here Read our review here Listen to the podcast here The screen rights for Shannon Molloy’s acclaimed memoir, Fourteen, have been acquired by Orange Entertainment Co. Published just in March this year, the book follows Molloy’s life...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Sally Young has won the 2020 Colin Roderick Literary Award for her exposé of the Australian newspaper industry in Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires. Dr Young has said she wrote the book wanting to document the important role of newspapers in...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The NT Writers’ Festival is just a few weeks away, with preparations well underway to run the event amidst the challenges of a global pandemic. ‘When we first set out to explore our 2020 theme, Gunamidirra garawa birditj/when the tides turn, we expected to talk about...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
UK author Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet. The novel, an imagining William Shakespeare’s marriage and the death of his son, Hamnet, is said to be mesmerising, seductive and impossible to put down. ‘The euphoria of being...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The announcement took place during an online event hosted by the State Library of Queensland on Friday, 4 September. The most valuable prize, the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The first Premier’s History Awards took place last week, with the winners announced on Friday evening at the State Library of NSW as a part of the launch of NSW History Week. Winners were announced across five categories, with each winner being awarded $15,000 in...
by Akina Hansen | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Discomfort of Evening by Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International Booker Prize for 2020. The prestigious award, which is given to fiction novels translated into English, comes with 50,000 pounds in prize money. This is shared between...
by Akina Hansen | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman, Nakkiah Lui, is launching a new imprint with Allen & Unwin called Joan. A writer, producer and actor, Lui is beginning Joan in order to commission books across a myriad of genres, and hopes to give a home to ‘the voices...
