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News  •  21 October 2021

 

2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence longlist

We're thrilled to have 14 books featured on the longlist.

The American Library Association has just released the longlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for excellence and our very own Charlotte McConaghy has been selected for Once There Were Wolves

'Thank you so much! This is lovely. Big congratulations to all the other longlisted authors,' said McConaghy on Twitter. 

The awards were established in 2012 to recognise the best fiction and non-fiction titles published in the U.S. in the previous year. 

The winners for each category, fiction and non-fiction, will be revealed in January. A $5,000 USD cash award is up for grabs.

A huge congratulations to McConaghy and the following longlisted authors:

Fiction

Non-fiction

 

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