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Kibble and Dobbie Awards shortlists announced

Wednesday, 5 June 2013   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, are:

  • The Beloved (Annah Faulkner, Picador)
  • Like a House on Fire (Cate Kennedy, Scribe)
  • Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser, A&U). 

 

The shortlisted titles for the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award, which recognises the work of a first-time published Australian female writer, are:

  • Floundering (Romy Ash, Text)
  • The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U)
  • Toyo: A Memoir (Lily Chan, Black Inc.).

 

The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on 24 July.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the judges released a longlist for each of the awards for the first time this year, with the chair of the judging panel Brigid Rooney observing that ‘2013 is a particularly strong year for Australian women writers’.

The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards aim to encourage Australian women writers of both fiction and nonfiction. In 2012, the Kibble Literary Award was presented to Gail Jones for Five Bells (Vintage) and the Dobbie Literary Award was presented to Favel Parrett for Past the Shallows (Hachette).

For more information about each of the shortlisted books, click here.

 

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