Dr. Anita Heiss has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Prize for Indigenous Writing, 2012 for her memoir Am I Black Enough for You?
Just as she wrote in her blog Anita Heiss talks again about her identity and why she wrote a memoir in a young age. Continue reading
Wondering what to read or what’s new, what’s popular? Here is our Spring Reading at Parramatta City Library.
Title: No way down
Author: Graham Bowley
Christina’s pick
No way down is a journey through the tragic mountaineering accident in August 2008. Continue reading
The idea of home is the title for NSW voted by many people for National Year of Reading.
When the First Wednesday book club meet this month they discussed “The idea of home by John Hughes”.
In ‘The Idea of Home’ John Hughes writes about growing up in the HunterValley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household dominated by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents were forced to flee during the Second World War. (excerpt from NoveList Plus) Continue reading
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Simon Crean today announced the winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards-
Australian
writers who write books about Australia.
Fiction winner –Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Poetry winner –Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
Non-fiction winner –An Eye for Eternity: The Life of ManningClark by Mark McKenna
Prize forAustralian History –The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aboriginies Made Australia by Bill Gammage
Young Adult fiction winner – When We Were Two by Robert Newton
Children’s fiction winner –Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and illustrated by Judy Watson 
