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    Congratulations again to Anna Funder for her win at the Barbara Jefferis Award for "All That I Am".  The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”. Barbara Jefferis was a feminist, a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors, its first woman President and, in the words of Thomas Keneally, “a rare being amongst authors, being both a fine writer but also organisationally gifted. She was a professional and internationally published...

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    Aurealis Awards Winners Announced May12

    Winners of the 2011 Aurealis Awards were announced in a glittering ceremony held in Sydney on the weekend.  Susan Wardle, co‐convenor of the awards, said that with approximately 700 entries across the thirteen categories, the judges had a challenging task. "The winners represent the best of Australian fantasy, horror and science fiction writing in 2011 as judged by a panel of their peers. This year's winners join the likes of Sara Douglass, Garth Nix, Isobelle Carmody, Trudi Canavan, Shaun Tan and Sean Williams, all of whom are multiple Aurealis Award winners." Winners this year included Lian Tanner ("City of Lies", Allen...

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    Awards Shortlist Announced Miles Franklin

    Always an exciting day when the Miles Franklin shortlist is announced.  This year is no exception. The winner of this year’s award, worth $50,000, will be announced on 20th June at the State Library of Queensland. The Trust Company, as trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, said in a statement that 'for the first time this year the five person judging panel were formally authorised by the Trustee to use their discretion to modernise the interpretation of Australian life beyond geographical boundaries to include mindset, language, history and values.'  Speaking on behalf of the judging panel, Gillian Whitlock said: 'This...

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    Vogel

    The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is one of Australia's richest and the most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. The Award has launched the careers of some of Australia's most successful authors, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville and Andrew McGahan. The winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2012 has been announced - congratulations to Paul D. Carter, whose novel Eleven Seasons took home the prestigious prize.  His coming-of-age story is about Melbourne schoolboy Jason Dalton, whose youth is filled with skateboards, spraypaint and an obsession with the Hawthorn Hawks. Carter's novel was described by...

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    Little, Brown Book Group has announced the new novel for adults by J.K. Rowling is entitled "The Casual Vacancy".  The book will be published worldwide in the English language in hardback, on Thursday 27th September 2012.  About the book: When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with...

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    From the creative minds of Academy Award (Gosford Park) and Emmy and Golden Globe (Downton Abbey) winner Julian Fellowes, and BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark (Bleak House), comes the highly anticipated "Titanic" - a four-part miniseries that will be shown on the Seven Network, the first episode airing on the 15th April. The DVD will be released shortly after so pre-order your library copy today!  Marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, "Titanic" is an extraordinary re-telling of the doomed voyage that cleverly weaves action, mystery and romance over four hours.  Shot in...

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