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The shortlist for the inaugural Australia - Asia Literary Award has been announced
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Moshin Hamid, Penguin)
Blood Kin (Ceridwen Dovey, Atlantic Books)
The winner will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on November 21 in Perth.
The award, which at $110,000 is Australia's richest, is open to any book-length work published in print or electronically in the previous year, with the author residing in Australia or Asia, or setting their work in either continent.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Moshin Hamid, Penguin)
Blood Kin (Ceridwen Dovey, Atlantic Books)
The shortlist will be announced on October 30 and the winner announced 21 November.
Fiction Shortlist
A Curious Intimacy, Jessica White - Penguin
Children's Shortlist
Ziba Came on a Boat, Liz Lofthouse & Robert Ingpen - Penguin
Best Non-Fiction Book
Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (Penguin)
Jacqueline Kent, An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin (Viking/Penguin)
Margaret Simons, The Content Makers: Understanding the Media in Australia (Penguin)
The winners of this year's Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for women's crime writing have been announced.
Best True Crime winner was Janette Fife-Yeomans' Killing Jodie (Penguin)
The awards are for the best crime books by Australian women published in the previous year, and for the eighth awards there were 41 nominated titles.
The awards are run by Sisters in Crime and sponsored by the Victorian Police Museum.
Indian novelist Aravind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his debut novel The White Tiger.
Michael Portillo, Chair of the judging panel declared that 'The White Tiger prevailed because the judges felt that it shocked and entertained in equal measure . . . The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader's sympathy for a thoroughgoing villain. The book gains from dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.'
As the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Aravind Adiga will take home £50,000 in prize money.
Paul Krugman, author of the The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America From the Right has won the Nobel Prize for Economics.
Independent booksellers of Australia have voted Tim Winton's Breath (Hamish Hamilton) their inaugural Indie' Award winner for 2008.
The author of the Best Australian Book receives $19,000, as donated by over 120 independent booksellers.
Winton said he was 'honoured to have won the inaugural award and wanted to thank all those booksellers who still take books as personally as they take their business'. 'We'd be buggered without you,' he said.
Andrew Taylor, Bleeding Heart Square, Michael Joseph
This award is for the best historical crime novel (set in any period up to 1970) by an author of any nationality, first published in the UK in English between September 16 2007 and September 15 2008. It commemorates the life and work of Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) (1913-1995), a prolific author perhaps best known as the creator of Brother Cadfael.
The winner will be annouced at an awards ceremony on the evening of 27th October, and shortly afterwards on this web site.
The Peasant Prince, by Li Cunxin and illustrated by Anne Spudvilas has won the Children's Book Award at the QLD Premier's Literary Awards.
For more information see: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awardsevents/awards/Queensland_Premiers_Literary_awards/2008_winners/
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