Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature has ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature’ and it awarded Helen Garner for her dedication to literature this year.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards highlight the importance of literacy and distinguished achievement by Australian writers. The shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. You can also vote for the People’s Choice Award now.
The shortlisted titles in each category are:
Book of the Year winner
Deep time dreaming (Billy Griffiths, Black Inc.)
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
The Life to Come (Michelle De Kretser, A&U) – Winner
The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction Continue reading
The longlist for the 2019 Stella Prize has been announced and City of Parramatta Libraries have all 12 titles for loan.
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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars) honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in the US in the previous year. 2019 shortlists are
Best Novel
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2019 Indie Book Awards shortlists, for the best Australian books published in 2018. You can reserve a copy from our library online catalogue site.
Fiction
