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Miles Franklin Award Announced
Tim Winton has been awarded The Miles Franklin Award for a record-breaking fourth time, for his novel Breath. -
Kibble and Dobbie Winners Announced
This year's winner of the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award is Jacqueline Kent for An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin. The Dobbie winner is Claire Thomas for Fugitive Blue. The two awards recognise female writers who have published fiction or nonfiction classified as 'life writing'. The Kibble is awarded to an established writer while the Dobbie is for a first publication by a woman writer.
Ditmar Winners
The Ditmar Awards for Australian speculative fiction were announced in Adelaide last week at Conjecture, the annual Australian SF Convention. Winners included Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Best Novel) and Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann (Best Collected Work). Also honoured were Rosaleen Love, who received the A. Bertram Chandler Award for her contribution to Australian science fiction, and Sean Williams, this year's winner of the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence.
UPCOMING EVENTS/PRIZES/LAUNCHES
- Consultations: 2009 Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence, Hinemoana Baker 27 Jun 2009
- Launch: 'Dear Rose' by Nicola Scholes 05 Jul 2009
- Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry 22 Apr 2009
- Call for Papers: Literature and Politics (30 April 2009) 06 Jul 2009
- Meet Kirsten Reed at Avid Reader 09 Jul 2009
- More events...
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
- Pelletier : The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York - Stephanie Anderson
- Clem Always Could - Sarah Watt ...
- Your Mother Would Be Proud : True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure - Tamara Sheward ...
- The Outsider : A Portrait of Ursula Hoff - Colin Holden
- Jatta - Jenny Hale
- More - 1467 works added in the last 14 days
ON THIS DAY, 4 JULY...
- John Dennistoun Wood born 1829, 4 works
- John Howell born 1832, 7 works
- W. H. H. Yarrington born 1839, 33 works
- St. G. le C. J. born 1842, 3 works
- Isabell Southey Adams born 1869, 1 works
- Sumner Locke born 1881, 25 works
- Quinlan Frost born 1897, 2 works
- Maurice Francis born 1907, 3 works
- Irene Hilton born 1912, 2 works
- Christine Lavant born 1915, 4 works
- Alice Sinclair born 1929, 15 works
- Fay Zwicky born 1933, 299 works
- Vera Campagna born 1939, 1 works
- Clay Thistleton born 1971, 3 works
- John D. Fitzgerald died 1922, 18 works
- Court Oldmeadow died 1977, 1 works
- Martin Long died 2002, 9 works
- Ruth Fenner died 2002, 1 works
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