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The Boat by Nam Le, Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey and God's Own Country by Ross Raisin have been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
The winner will be announced in November.
For more information see: www.thedylanthomasprize.com
The Booker shortlist has been announced. Congratulations to the following authors:
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger (Atlantic)
Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton)
The winner will be announced in London, 14 October
For more information http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear
Winner: Best Non Fiction
Red Centre, Dark Heart - Evan McHugh (Viking)
Winner of the Young Children Category
Is Your Grandmother a Goanna, by Pamela Allen.
For more information see www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au
History Book - Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award
An Exacting Heart, Jacqueline Kent
Non Fiction Book Award
An Exacting Heart, Jacqueline Kent
Fiction Book Award
Breath, Tim Winton
Children's Book - Mary Ryan's Award
The Peasant Prince, Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas
Young Adult Book Award
The Push, Julia Lawrinson
Winners will be announced by the Honourable Anna Bligh MP, Premier of Queensland on Tuesday 16 September.
The winners of this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards have been announced.
The winning and honour books are:
Book of the Year: Older Readers
The Ghost's Child (Sonya Hartnett, Viking)
Honour Books:
Black Water (David Metzenthen, Penguin)
Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Honour Books:
Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) (Sherryl Clark, illustrated by Elissa Christian, Puffin)
Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Aaron Blabey, Viking)
Picture Book of the Year
Honour Books:
The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin, illus by Anne Spudvilas, Viking)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Honour Books:
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
The shortlist for this year's Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The awards, now in their 35th year, offer three $10,000 prizes, one each for a work of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The Book of the Year award, worth an additional $10,000, goes to one of the three category winners.
The shortlist is:
Novel:
Breath (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Nonfiction:
An Exacting Heart (Jacqueline Kent, Viking)
The awards will be presented at Melbourne Writers' Festival's opening night on August 22, and on August 23 a session will allow winning writers to read from and discuss their work.
The longlist for second annual Inkys--Teen Choice Book Awards, was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria.
Joel & Cat Set the Story Straight (Nick Earls & Rebecca Sparrow, Penguin)
Michael Sweeney's Method Sean Condon, Penguin)
Kill the Possum (James Moloney, Penguin)
The winners will all be announced at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 6 November.
For more information visit www.insideadog.com.au.
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