Congratulations to Alasdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin (Penguin) and to Thomas Keneally, Australians: Origins to Eureka (Allen & Unwin) for being shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards.
Congratulations to Mary-Rose MacColl, The Birth Wars (UQP), Peter Goldsworthy, Gravel (Penguin), Alasdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin (Penguin) and to Thomas Keneally, Australians: Origins to Eureka (Allen & Unwin) for being shortlisted for the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (www.scbwi.org), at its 39th Summer Conference held in Los Angeles, announced on August 1st that Australian children’s author Christopher Cheng was awarded Member of the Year. Christopher is the first Australian to win this prestigious award.
Congratulations to Ros Moriarty, Listening to Country (Allen & Unwin) and to Maria Tumarkin, Otherland (Random House), whose memoirs have been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Age Book of the Year Awards.
Congratulations to Christos Tsiolkas for being longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Slap.
Congratulations to Thomas Keneally who was awarded the General Nonfiction Book of the Year for his historical work Australians: Origins to Eureka (A&U) at the recent Australian Book Industry Awards 2010.
Congratulations to Anna Goldsworthy for winning Newcomer of the Year for her memoir Piano Lessons (Black Inc) also at the Australian Book Industry Awards 2010.
Congratulations to Freya Blackwood for winning the highly prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for her work on Harry and Hopper (Omnibus Books).
Congratulations to Pamela Rushby (When the Hipchicks Went to War) for winning the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010.
