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Australian Book Industry Awards
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) are publishers' and literary awards held by the Australian Publishers Association annually in Sydney "to celebrate the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers". Works are first selected by an academy of more than 200 industry professionals, and then a shortlist and winners are chosen by judging panels. The inaugural event was held in July 2006. 2018 winners The 2018 ABIA winners were announced on 3 May, with Jessica Townsend's '' Nevermoor'' receiving three awards: * ABIA book of the year: ''Nevermoor'', Jessica Townsend * Biography of the year award: ''Working Class Man,'' Jimmy Barnes * General fiction book of the year: ''The Secrets She Keeps,'' Michael Robotham * General non-fiction book of the year: ''The Trauma Cleaner,'' Sarah Krasnostein * Literary fiction book of the year: ''See What I Have Done,'' Sarah Schmidt * Illustrated book of year: ''Maggie's Recipe for Life,'' Maggie Beer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publisher
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as E-book, ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, Electronic publishing, websites, blogs, video game publisher, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson plc, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing K–12, (k-12) and Academic publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eggshell Skull (book)
''Eggshell Skull'' is a 2018 non-fiction memoir by Australian author Bri Lee. It details Lee's experiences as a judge's associate in Brisbane's District Court of Queensland, where she oversees many cases, including those involving sexual harassment and assault. Two years into her job, she returns as the complainant in her own case. First published in Australia in July 2018 by Allen and Unwin, the memoir has been widely well received, including winning the People's Choice Award at the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and being a recipient of the Davitt Award. Premise Bri Lee, a law graduate from Queensland, begins her job as a judge's associate in Brisbane at the Supreme and District Court. She is confronted by a barrage of cases, many of them involving acts of violence and sexual assault against women. Many of the perpetrators are not brought to justice. Prejudice against the female victims and an overall patriarchal influence upon the general public is noted in ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booktopia
Booktopia Pty Ltd is an Australian online bookstore. Founded in 2004, it now turns over $165 million a year, and was listed in the AFR/BRW's Fast 100 eight times, the only company to ever achieve this feat, from 2009 to 2017. In 2016, 2017 & 2019 Booktopia was voted 'Bookstore of the Year'. In 2018 it won NSW Telstra Business of the Year and the Australian Telstra Business Award People's Choice Award. It has been a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards seven times from 2011 to 2018, the only company to achieve this feat. Booktopia has stated that Australian authors and titles are a key focus for the company. Booktopia completed a $20 million capital raise at the beginning of 2020. History Booktopia was founded on 4 February 2004 by Tony Nash, Steve Traurig, and Simon Nash in Sydney, Australia. Tony started the business as a side project. They started on a $10 per day budget and took three days to sell the first book, but then the business grew rapidly. After the first month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magabala Books
Magabala Books is an Indigenous publishing house based in Broome, Western Australia. It started in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The name ''Magabala'' is a Yawuru, Karrajari and Nyulnyul word for the bush banana. In 1990, Magabala Books became an independent Aboriginal corporation. Magabala's stated objective is "restoring, preserving and maintaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures". Many prominent Australian Indigenous authors have been published with Magabala Books, including Anita Heiss, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jimmy Pike, Alexis Wright, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jack Davis, Bill Neidjie, Stephen Hagan, Jack Davis, Jimmy Chi and Bruce Pascoe. The literature ranges from Aboriginal lore, children's books, various picture books, as well as oral history of indigenous culture. Magabala Books won the small publisher of the year award at the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) are publishers' and literary awards held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affirm Press
Affirm Press is an independent Melbourne-based book publisher. History In 2010, Affirm Press began publishing several books a year as a part-time operation between Martin Hughes, former editor of ''The Big Issue'', and Graeme Wise, founder of The Body Shop Australia. In 2014 Affirm Press appointed Keiran Rogers as its Sales and Marketing Director, and became a full-time publishing house. Affirm Press publishes a broad range of non-fiction books and a select fiction list. In 2017 they added a kids list. Each year Affirm Press partners with a charity to publish a profit-for-purpose book. These projects have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and include bestsellers ''Letters of Love'' with the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and ''The Silver Sea'' by Alison Lester and Jane Godwin. Awards In 2019 Affirm Press was named Small Publisher of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Its books have won several major awards, including the Stella Prize (''The Strays'' by E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Macmillan Australia
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others. History Macmillan was founded in London in 1843 by Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Walsh (Australian Publisher)
Richard Walsh (born John Richard Walsh; born 21 July 1941) is an Australian publisher, editor, company director, media consultant, lecturer, broadcaster and journalist. For many years he ran the publishing and bookselling firm Angus & Robertson and later he headed the media company Australian Consolidated Press. In those roles he was "one of the most dominant figures in Australian publishing from the early seventies". Education, ''OZ'' magazine Richard Walsh was educated at Barker College and the University of Sydney and graduated with degrees in arts and medicine. He never practised medicine, but instead became a copywriter at advertising firm J. Walter Thompson. In 1963, while still a university student and editor of Sydney University's ''Honi Soit'' student magazine, Walsh co-founded and co-edited the satirical underground alternative '' OZ'' magazine. Together with co-editors Richard Neville and Martin Sharp, he was sentenced to prison for obscenity (the convictions we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davina Bell
Davina Bell is an Australian literary editor and children's writer. Her 2020 book, ''The End of the World Is Bigger than Love'', won a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award in 2021. Early life and education Bell was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated in law at university there, but then enrolled in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University in Melbourne. Career With two others, Bell co-founded the literary journal ''Harvest'' and published its first edition in 2008. She was children's editor at Penguin, where she worked on their list with authors including Mem Fox and Margaret Wild. She subsequently moved Affirm Press to edit their children's list of writers including Alison Lester and Jane Godwin and then to Allen & Unwin where she work on their children and young-adult list. Writing Bell wrote a series of four books set in 1918 about a West Australian girl called Alice, who wanted to be a dancer. The stories part of Penguin's Our Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Heiss
Anita Marianne Heiss (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees. Early life and education Heiss was born in Sydney in 1968, and is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales. Her mother, Elsie Williams, was born at Erambie Mission, Cowra in Wiradjuri country, while her father, Josef Heiss, was born in St Michael in the Lungau, Salzburg, Austria. Heiss was educated at St Clare's College, Waverley, then at the University of New South Wales, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989. After a cadetship at the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (later AusAID) in Canberra, she returned to UNSW to complete an honours degree in History in 1991. She gained her PhD in Communication and Media at the University of Western Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ''Less''. He is the author of ''The Story of a Marriage'', which ''The New York Times'' has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and ''The Confessions of Max Tivoli'', which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and received a California Book Award. Biography Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. He grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He is an identical twin. He graduated from Georgetown Day School, and Brown University, where he studied with Robert Coover and Edmund White, and served as commencement speaker. He lives part-time in Italy. He is the author of six works of fiction. Greer taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori for a work translated into Italian, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Sales
Leigh Peta Sales (born 10 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and author, best known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Interview with Leigh Sales by Wendy Squires, ''Daily Life'' (''''), 16 December 2012. Sales hosted ABC TV's current affairs program '''' from 2011 to 2022. In November 2022, it was announced that Sales had been appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Tofighian
Omid Tofighian (Persian: امید توفیقیان) is an Iranian-Australian philosopher and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney. He is known for his research on ancient Greek philosophy and his translation of the award-winning book by Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani, '' No Friend But the Mountains'' from Persian into English. Education and career Tofighian graduated with a combined honours degree in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Sydney, and earned his PhD at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has worked as a university teacher at the Abu Dhabi University, in the UAE, was a visiting scholar at K.U. Leuven in Belgium and later became an assistant professor in philosophy at the American University in Cairo. Tofighian works as a Honorary Research Associate for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is also a faculty member of Iran Academia as well as campaign manager for the "Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
