Author of Black Rock White City, which has won Australia’s premier literary prize, says he feels a bit of sunlight after many years of absolute obscurity Two years ago, Melbourne’s AS Patric couldn’t even get a rejection slip for his book, Black Rock White City. Not one of the big Australian publishers responded when he sent it; he couldn’t raise a pulse.Now that same book, eventually nabbed by small independent publisher Transit Lounge, has won Australia’s premier literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin award. It edged out the presumptive bookies’ favourite The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, and the three other Miles Franklin shortlisted books: Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, Leap by Myfanwy Jones, and Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar. Related: The Miles Franklin shortlist: five books you need to read next Related: Women and Melbourne writers dominate Miles Franklin 2016 shortlist Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Corrinne Averiss and Rosalind Beardshaw have triumphed at this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards to win the Book of the Year Award for My Pet Star (Hachette Children’s Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 19:52:05 UTC ]
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Orion scooped two prizes at The Book Marketing Society’s latest seasonal awards, with wins for Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan too. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-23 01:57:04 UTC ]
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Morrison's accolades included a Pulitzer, a Nobel Prize in literature, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-08-06 14:40:16 UTC ]
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Books by Fiona Barton, Steve Cavanagh and Elly Griffiths are among the winners of this year’s Dead Good Reader Awards for crime and thriller novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 02:40:27 UTC ]
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Steve Cavanagh has been named as the winner of this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for his book Thirteen (Orion). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-19 05:35:02 UTC ]
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Jilly Cooper, debut author Laura Steven and screenwriter Kirsty Eyre have been honoured at the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize ceremony, with the award-winning books featuring slut-shaming and dairy farming. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 14:48:20 UTC ]
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The School Library Association (SLA) has awarded the School Librarian of the Year Award to Ros Harding from The King’s School Chester. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 07:49:08 UTC ]
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Muhammad Khan and his editor Lucy Pearse have won this year’s Branford Boase Award for a debut novel for children or young people with I Am Thunder (Macmillan Children’s Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 15:50:48 UTC ]
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At the Liber International Book Fair in Madrid in October, the Spanish publishers' federation will honor Altresmedia for 'Fariña' and for 'Crea Lectura.' The post Spain’s ‘Fariña’–’Cocaine Coast’ on Netflix–Wins 2019 Liber Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-06-27 05:30:52 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK has revealed the nine winners of the 2019 Student Design Award, following a record-breaking number of 2,313 entries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 05:29:44 UTC ]
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New Writing North and Michael Morpurgo’s Farms for City Children are among seven charities sharing £100,000 donated by HarperCollins UK parent company News Corp UK, via the annual News Corp Giving programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 09:16:53 UTC ]
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The first outing in the States of London Book Fair's CAMEO Awards for book adaptation work is a lesson not only in good audiobook production but also in the essential internationalism of publishing that's missing from the shrinking BookExpo 2019. The post ‘Milkman’ Wins 2019 CAMEOs USA: A Rare... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-31 05:30:51 UTC ]
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The British accent you hear on Netflix or Facebook could well be voiced by an award-winning Kiwi from Northland. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-05-31 01:14:56 UTC ]
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Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth have won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for "Celestial Bodies," a coming-of-age novel written by Alharthi and translated from Arabic by Booth. Organizers of the literary prize, given annually to a work of fiction translated into English, made the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-21 22:50:00 UTC ]
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Nora Krug has won the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year and Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards 2019, for Heimat (Particular Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-20 16:37:20 UTC ]
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The Irish writer's "exceptional" novel beat Michelle Obama to the top prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrator Jan Pieńkowski will today be presented with the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to children's literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The stage adaptation of Patrick Ness’ award-winning YA novel A Monster Calls has won an Olivier award in the ‘Best Family and Entertainment’ category. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Flemish author Bart Moeyaert is the winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Raymond Antrobus has won this year’s £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for his collection The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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