CBCA shortlists, Yarros tops ebook charts, local publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist

In news this week, Rebecca Yarros’ romantasy titles Fourth Wing and Iron Flame (both Piatkus) have taken out the top two places in Nielsen BookScan’s 2023 ebook bestsellers chart; Writers Victoria has appointed Julie Skate as its new CEO; and Auckland Writers Festival has announced its 2024 program.

Meanwhile, in local awards news, the CBCA Book of the Year Awards shortlists have been released; local publishers Affirm Press, Fremantle Press, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, Scholastic New Zealand and Huia Publishers have been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category; social and cultural historian Kate Fullagar has won the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship; and the Aurealis Awards 2023 shortlists are also available.

Overseas, poet Liz Berry won the 2024 Writers’ Prize overall Book of the Year award for The Home Child (Vintage); The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton) won the overall Nero Book Prize; the 2024 shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration and the Carnegie Medal for Writing have been released; and, in the United States, publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley have filed a brief asking the Second Circuit court of appeals to uphold a copyright infringement finding against the Internet Archive, reported Publishers Weekly.

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