Winners to be announced 31 January 2019.
We are thrilled to announce that two Penguin Random House Australia titles have been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019.
The Shortlist
A funny, dark and tender memoir about growing up between the lunacy of Yugoslavia’s civil war and suburban Australia, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category.
Also shortlisted in the non-fiction category, Chloe Hooper's masterful investigation into two of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, The Arsonist. Written with her trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for the man who started those fires, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. It is also the story of fire in this country, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element.
The Awards
The awards were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievements in Australian writing, and the 2019 awards recognise literature across seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults, the prize for an unpublished manuscript and the biennial prize for Indigenous Writing. The winners of the seven award categories go on to contest the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth an additional $100,000.
The winners will be announced on Thursday 31 January 2019.
A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.
The longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize has been announced, with five Penguin Random House titles named this year.
DK are so excited to share the cover of our upcoming graphic novel Nikolas Nurdblok and the Lost Brick, made with our friends at LEGO and written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown!
Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore has been named the ABA BookData Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2026, as voted by booksellers across Australia.
Two Penguin Random House titles have been awarded the Women's Prize this year.
Penguin Random House Australia is thrilled to announce Driftwood by Brooke Maddison as the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize 2026.
Penguin Random House has won Publisher of the Year at the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The 2026 ABIA have just been announced and we are beyond excited to share that Penguin Random House has been awarded Publisher of the Year marking our third consecutive win - and fifth in six years!
Internationally acclaimed author and poet David Malouf AO has died, aged 92
We are delighted to share that Virginia Evans and Susan Choi have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2026 awards!
Check out the Penguin Random House books that have been shortlisted for the ABIAs in 2026. The winners will be announced on 21 May 2026.
We are delighted to share that we have an abundance of female authors shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Non-fiction 2026 awards!
See which bookstores have been named recipients of the Penguin Children’s Bookseller Grant.