The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award is for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35. It comes with $20,000 in prizemoney and publication of the winning novel.
This year’s award has been announced and the winner is Paul D. Carter for his ‘Eleven seasons’.
Previous winners are some of the most admired writers of contemporary Australian fiction: Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears and Andrew McGahan. Continue reading
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is an award “for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life”. Past winners include Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Eugenides, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.
This year the committee has not given the award to any of the finalists. Continue reading
Cockroach is Rawi Hage’s (Winner of the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) second novel; it takes place during the cold winter of Montreal where the reader will take a journey into the mind of a disturbed, unnamed Middle-Eastern man with suicidal tendencies. Continue reading
The Children’s Book Council has announced its Children’s Book of the Year 2012 Shortlist. Continue reading
Miles Franklin Award 2012 Longlist has been announced recently. Since the the first winner, Patrick White, for his book Voss in 1957, the prize has been awarded to novels describing life in suburbia, compulsive gamblers, Australians abroad – but always true to the terms of Miles Franklin’s will: ‘[the] prize shall be awarded for the novel for the year which is of the highest literary merit and which must present Australian life in any of its phases …’. The award also causes confusion and attracts criticism.