Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation (MUP) by Paul Kelly has won this year’s Walkley Book Award. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Literary Awards
A&NZ Writers Longlisted for Dublin IMPAC
142 books have been nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. A number of Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading
National Book Award 2014 Winners
National Book Award is an important literature award in the US which aims to ‘enhance the cultural value of great writing in America’. The winners of the 2014 National Book Award have been announced. Continue reading
Walkley Book Award Longlist 2014
The Walkley Book Award celebrates the value and importance of long form journalism, acknowledging the proud line-up of Australian writers who have taken subjects of enduring topicality and consequence from news bulletins, eye-witness reporting, investigations and historical records and provided readers with expanded factual detail, revelation and greater clarity of analysis in book form. (cited from http://walkleys.com/awards/walkleys/walkley-book-award-2/)
This year the longlist for this category is here and you can borrow or reserve any of those titles by going through Parramatta City Library’s online catalogue.
PM’s Literary Awards Shortlist 2014
Fiction
A World of Other People, Steven Carroll (HarperCollins)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Vintage Australia)
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane (Penguin: Hamish Hamilton)
Coal Creek, Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin)
Belomor, Nicolas Rothwell (Text Publishing)