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2024 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024. Events * Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival * Major Australian online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration as its explores options for "sale and/or recapitalisation." Major publications Literary fiction * Amy Brown – ''My Brilliant Sister'' * Charmian Clift – ''The End of the Morning'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''Wing'' * Gail Jones – ''One Another'' * Meg Keneally – ''Free'' * Alex Miller – ''The Deal'' * Jock Serong – ''Cherrywood'' * Nardi Simpson – ''The Belburd'' * Tim Winton – ''Juice'' Crime and mystery * Garry Disher – ''Sanctuary'' * Candice Fox – ''Devil's Kitchen'' * Sulari Gentill – ''The Mystery Writer'' * Chris Hammer – ''The Valley'' * Dervla McTiernan – '' What Happened to Nina?'' * Louise Milligan – ''Pheasants Nest'' Science fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Writers Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Melbourne, a UNESCO City of Literature. The Festival runs during early September each year. Melbourne Writers Festival is part of the Word Alliance, a partnership of eight international literary festivals which support and showcase the work of writers. In 2020, MWF was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently ran an entirely digital program, curated by Associate Director, Gene Smith. In September 2020, the Melbourne Writers Festival appointed Michaela McGuire to the role of Artistic Director, replacing Marieke Hardy who created the 2018 and 2019 festivals. History MWF was founded in 1986 as a joint initiative between the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts and the City of Melbourne. It was organised as a sister festival to the Spoleto Festival, and was known in the first year as Spoleto Melbourne Festival of Three Worlds. It was held at the Athenaeum Theatre. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Slatter
Angela Slatter is a writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing. Since then she has written a number of short stories, many of which were included in her two compilations, ''Sourdough and Other Stories'' (2010) and ''The Girl With No Hands and other tales'' (2010). Education Slatter is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing. In 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. Slatter occasionally teaches creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology. Writing Angela Slatter's short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals in Australia and internationally. Her work has been listed for Honourable Mention by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link; and she has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann (born 1963) is an Australian poet of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. She is a Yankunytjatjara woman born on Kaurna land in South Australia. Eckermann has written poetry collections, verse novels and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards. In 2017, she won the international Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry. She has travelled extensively, performing her poetry. Early life Ali Cobby Eckermann was born Penelope Rae Cobby at the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home in Adelaide, traditional home of the Kaurna people, in 1963. She was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple, Clarrie and Frieda Eckermann. She grew up on a farm, and did her schooling at Brinkworth Area School and Clare High School, in mid-north South Australia. Eckermann, her mother and her grandmother were all stolen, tricked or adopted away from their birth families, becoming part of the Stolen Generations. She grew up in a loving supportive home, but she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Inc
Schwartz Publishing is an Australian publishing house, digital media and news media organisation based in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria established by Australian property developer Morry Schwartz in the 1980s. Since the late 1990s many of its publications have appeared under the Black Inc imprint.Susan Wyndham "Developer adds another story"in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 12 June 2004 Schwartz Publishing has its complementary brand Schwartz Media, which all sit under the wider group of 'Schwartz' companies specialising in newspapers, books, essays, magazines, journals, podcasts and online news media. History In the 1980s Schwartz Publishing mainly published American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller was ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' by H. Jackson Brown Jr. with 300,000 copies sold. In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up the Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the ''Quarterly Essay'' and since 2005 ''The Monthly''. In 2017, Black Inc. Books alongside La T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Marr (journalist)
David Ewan Marr FAHA (born 13 July 1947) is an Australian journalist, author and progressive political and social commentator. His areas of expertise include the law, Australian politics, censorship, the media and the arts. He writes for ''The Monthly'', '' The Saturday Paper'' and ''Guardian Australia''. Career Marr attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School in North Sydney and subsequently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1971.Who's Who in Australia – entry on David Marr Whilst at university he was a resident of St Paul's College. He worked for a time as an articled clerk at the law firm Allen, Allen and Hemsley, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor before turning to journalism. Marr began as a journalist working for ''The Bulletin'' magazine and '' The National Times'' newspaper in 1972 before being appointed editor in 1980. During this period, he oversaw the publication of the articl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Book Awards Book Of The Year – Book Of The Year
The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Book of the Year is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers The Indie Book Awards are a group of awards presented annually by Australian Independent Booksellers. They were established in 2008 in order to recognise and reward the best in Australian writing, chosen by independent booksellers in Australia .... The prize is awarded to the book considered to be the best from among the other Indie Book Awards Book of the Year categories. The award was established in 2008. Winners References {{reflist Australian fiction awards Australian non-fiction book awards Awards established in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Roderick Award
The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and has a prize of A$20,000. Starting in 1980, the H. T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also been bestowed upon the award winner. The Award was founded by Colin Roderick, an Australian "writer, editor, academic and educator". Award winners * 2022: Emily Bitto, ''Wild Abandon'' * 2021: Sofie Laguna, ''Infinite Splendours'' *2020: Sally Young, ''Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper empires'' * 2019: Robert Drewe, ''The True Colour of the Sea'' * 2018: Jock Serong, ''On the Java Ridge'' * 2016: Josephine Wilson, ''Extinctions'' * 2015: Gail Jones, ''A Guide to Berlin'' * 2014: Michael Wilding, ''Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary'' * 2013: Ashley Hay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praiseworthy (novel)
''Praiseworthy'' (2023) is a novel by Australian writer Alexis Wright. It was initially published by Giramondo Publishing in Australia in 2023. ''Praiseworthy'' won a litany of Australian literary awards, including the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards' Fiction Book Award, 2024 ALS Gold Medal, the 2024 Miles Franklin Award, and the 2024 Stella Prize. It also drew increased international notoriety when it won the 2023 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 2024 IMPAC. Synopsis The town of Praiseworthy, in Australia's north, is home to Cause Man Steel, who sees an end-of-the-world crisis looming. His solution is to round up all the donkeys in the nearby area, arguing that they will be important when civilization collapses. He and his wife, Dance, who has become fascinated by moths and butterflies, and his sons, Aboriginal Sovereignty, who wants to commit suicide, and Tommyhawk, who wants to become white, have to live under the 2008 Australian Federal Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel '' Carpentaria'' and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth. As of 2020, Wright has produced three novels, one biography, and several works of prose. Her work also appears in anthologies and journals. Origin and activism Alexis Wright is a land rights activist from the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Wright's father, a white cattleman, died when she was five years old and she grew up in Cloncurry, Queensland, with her mother and grandmother. When the Northern Territory Intervention proposed by the Howard Government in mid-2007 was introduced, Wright delivered a high-profile 10,000-word speech, sponsored by International PEN. Literary career Alexis Wright's first book, the novel ''Plains of Promise'', published in 1997, was nominated for several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALS Gold Medal
The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, when the two organisations were merged. Award winners 2020s * 2022: Andy Jackson, ''Human Looking'' * 2021: Nardi Simpson – ''Song of the Crocodile'' *2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green — ''Nganajungu Yagu'' 2010s * 2019: Pam Brown — ''click here for what we do'' * 2018: Shastra Deo – ''The Agonist'' * 2017: Zoe Morrison – ''Music and Freedom'' * 2016: Brenda Niall – ''Mannix'' * 2015: Jennifer Maiden – ''Drones and Phantoms'' * 2014: Alexis Wright – '' The Swan Book'' * 2013: Michelle de Kretser – '' Questions of Travel'' * 2012: Gillian Mears – '' Foal's Bread'' * 2011: Kim Scott – ''That Deadman Dance'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick White Award
The Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize. The $25,000 cash award is given to a writer who has been highly creative over a long period but has not necessarily received adequate recognition. White stipulated that the award be announced the Friday after the Melbourne Cup to turn attention from sport to literature. The 2010 award was reduced to $18,000 because of the economic slump, and in 2012 it was $23,000. In 2020 the winner received $15,000. Writers are automatically eligible without the necessity for submissions. Winners * 2022 Antigone Kefala * 2021 Adam Aitken *2020 Gregory Day *2019 Jordie Albiston * 2018 Samuel Wagan Watson *2017 Tony Birch * 2016 Carmel Bird * 2015 Joan London * 2014 Brian Castro [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |