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Indie Book Awards Book Of The Year – Fiction
The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers. The award was established in 2008. Winners and shortlists References {{reflist Australian fiction awards Awards established in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Book Awards (Australia)
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. , there are six categories, with an overall winner chosen as Indie Book of the Year: * Indie Book of the Year Fiction * Indie Book of the Year Non-Fiction * Indie Book of the Year Debut Fiction * Indie Book of the Year Children's & YA (2008–2015) * Indie Book of the Year Children's (from 2016) * Indie Book of the Year Young Adult (from 2016) * Indie Book of the Year Illustrated Non-Fiction (from 2018) From 2008 until 2015 the Children's and Young Adult books were included in the same category. In 2016 they were split into separate awards. A longlist of titles is compiled and announced in December of each year and a shortlist A short list or shortlist is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Mears
Gillian Mears (21 July 1964 – 16 May 2016) was an Australian short story writer and novelist. Her books ''Ride a Cock Horse'' and ''The Grass Sister'' won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, in 1989 and 1996, respectively. ''The Mint Lawn'' won The Australian/Vogel Award. In 2003, ''A Map of the Gardens'' won the Steele Rudd Award. Life Mears was born at Lismore Base Hospital, and raised in Grafton, New South Wales where she was school dux of Grafton High School. She moved to Sydney to study at university, beginning a degree in archaeology at the University of Sydney having been inspired to pursue a career in archaeology after reading '' Gods, Graves and Scholars'' by C. W. Ceram. At the age of 18, she withdrew from the course, and instead completed a degree in communications at University of Technology, Sydney. She lived near Grafton, New South Wales. She died in May 2016 after living with multiple sclerosis for seventeen years. Bernadette Brennan has written a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Flanagan
Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel), The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for ''Question 7'', making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. Flanagan was described by the ''Washington Post'' as "one of our greatest living novelists". "[C]onsidered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to ''The Economist, the New York Review of Books'' described Flanagan as "among the most versatile writers in the English language". He has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. Early life and education Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land during the Great Famine (Ireland), Great Famine in Ireland. Flanagan's father was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014. Events * The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers. * The Voss Literary Prize is awarded for the first time. Major publications Literary fiction * Belinda Alexandra – '' Sapphire Skies'' * Emily Bitto – '' The Strays'' * Peter Carey – ''Amnesia'' * Elizabeth Harrower – '' In Certain Circles'' * Sonya Hartnett – '' Golden Boys'' * Mark Henshaw – '' The Snow Kimono'' * Janette Turner Hospital – ''The Claimant'' * Wendy James – ''The Lost Girls'' * Sofie Laguna – '' The Eye of the Sheep'' * Joan London – '' The Golden Age'' * Suzanne McCourt – ''The Lost Child'' * Gerald Murnane – ''A Million Windows'' * Omar Musa – ''Here Come the Dogs'' * Favel Parrett – ''When the Night Comes'' * Christine Piper – '' After Darkness'' * Craig Sherborne – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountain (novel)
''The Mountain'' (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award. Overview The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a Papua New Guinea university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia. Critical response Lloyd Jones in ''The Guardian'' noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire." Eleanor Limprecht in ''The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuous ...'' found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drusilla Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor. Life Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Papua New Guinea) before arriving in Australia in 1971. She studied for an undergraduate degree at the Australian National University before completing a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales which was published as ''Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945'' (1981). Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are ''Poppy'' (1990), a fictionalised biography of her mother, and '' Stravinsky's Lunch'' (2001), a feminist reappraisal of the lives and work of Australian painters Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith. She has also edited several volumes of stories, poems and essays, including the work of Lesbia Harford and a 'Focus on Papua New Guinea' iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Questions Of Travel
''Questions of Travel'' is a 2012 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. It won the 2013 Miles Franklin Award and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Description The novel concerns two main characters: Laura—an Australian woman who travels the world before returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides—and Ravi—an IT professional from Sri Lanka who flees his country after a major trauma. The novel "illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now." Owen Richardson, in his review of the novel in ''The Monthly'' described it as "...a big, ambitious novel of Sydney and the world, globalisation and divided identities. It is everywhere full of intelligence and a vivid sense of individual lives." The novel's title, ''Questions of Travel'', is a homage to a poem of the same name by Elizabeth Bishop. Awards * 2012 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize * 2012 winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle De Kretser
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. Her father was Oswald Leslie De Kretser III, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Education and literary career De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, in Melbourne at Elwood College, and in Paris. She worked as an editor for a travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, ''The Rose Grower''. Her second novel, '' The Hamilton Case'', was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (in the UK) and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, '' The Lost Dog'', was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. From 1989 to 1992, she was a founding editor of the ''Australian Women's Book Review''. Her fourth novel, '' Questions of Travel'', won several awards, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Koch
Christopher John Koch AO (16 July 1932 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel '' The Year of Living Dangerously'', which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by the same name for which he co-wrote the screenplay. He twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for '' The Doubleman'' in 1985 and '' Highways to a War'' in 1996). In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, the University of Tasmania, in 1990. Early life and education Koch was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1932. He was educated at Clemes College, St Virgil's College, and Hobart High School and later attended the University of Tasmania.Koch, Christopher ''AustLit''. Koch's admission to the unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Days (novel)
''Nine Days'' is a 2012 novel by the Australian author Toni Jordan. It was the winner of the 2013 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction. Synopsis The novel tells the stories of the Westaways, a working-class Richmond family, across several generations. It follows nine characters, each of whose story is told in a separate chapter, with each dealing with one day in the life of its principal character. Critical reception Reviewing the book for ''Australian Book Review'' Donata Carrazza noted that in spite of the novel's serious themes "this is an easy book to read, with many observations about families and their foibles, comic scenarios involving objects and underwear, sharp repartee between mothers and sons, twin siblings, and neighbourhood louts...Jordan is clear that what binds us to one another and to a meaningful life is simply valuing the life you have been given and the family that is yours and yours alone." Emma Perry, for ''ArtsHub'' was clearly ipressed with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Jordan
Toni Jordan (born 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel ''Addition'', an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2017 her fourth book, ''Our Tiny Useless Hearts'', was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. Her novel ''Nine Days'' was named the Indie Book of the Year by the Australian Booksellers in 2013. Her most recent novel ''Prettier if she Smiled More'' was called 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'. In 2022, she released Dinner with Schnables, and in 2023 ''Prettier if she Smiled More''. She currently teaches at the Faber Academy. Bibliography Novels * ''Here Lives a Kind Woman (1999)'' * ''Addition'' (2008) * ''Fall Girl'' (2011) * ''Nine Days Nine Days (stylized as ''ninedays'') is an American rock band from Long Island, New York. It was formed in the hamlet of St. James, Suffolk County, New York in 1994 by John Hampson and Brian Desveaux, and released three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013. Events * James Ley (literary critic), James Ley launches the ''Sydney Review of Books'' to provide "an opportunity for Australia's critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism". * The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize is announced. * The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time. * Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel ''Rupetta''. * Aora Children's Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation. * The Commonwealth Foundation prizes#Commonwealth Book Prize (2012–13), Commonwealth Book Prize was discontinuted after 2013. Major publications Literary fiction * Debra Adelaide – ''Letter to George Clooney'' * Steven Carroll – ''A World of Other People'' * J. M. Coetzee – ''The Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |