The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. They provide Australians a diverse range of reading genres.
Fiction (joint winners)
The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. They provide Australians a diverse range of reading genres.
Fiction (joint winners)
The Man Booker has announced its 2016 winner today. Selected from 6 shortlisted authors, Paul Beatty‘s The sellout has won this year’s The Man Booker Prize, the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize, for a caustic satire on US racial politics that judges said put him up there with Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift.
From the judging panel:
“The Sellout is one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire, which is a very difficult subject and not always done well, and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American society with a savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain.” Continue reading
South African-born Australian author J M Coetzee’s forthcoming novel The Schooldays of Jesus (Text, October) has been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
The 13 books longlisted for the prize are: Continue reading
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing.
The shortlisted works in each category are: Continue reading
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.
The shortlisted titles in each category are: Continue reading