Miles Franklin shortlist, Kellow steps down at Ultimo, BookPeople award winners
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced, Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow will step down from the position at the end of June, and the winners of the 2023 BookPeople Book of the Year Awards and Bookseller of the Year awards were announced at the BookPeople Conference in Adelaide.
In other awards news, Immaculate by Anna McGahan has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award; Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho is the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize; Kirsty Iltners has won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her entry Depth of Field; Lauren Crozier has won the $10,000 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris, with shortlisted author Ella Pilson selected as the recipient of the 2023 Steph Bowe Mentorship for Young Writers; the shortlist for the ACT Notable Book Awards has been announced; and, as part of the mid-year Walkley Awards, editor Catriona Menzies-Pike has won the 2023 Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism and journalists Anna Verney and Richard Cooke have won the 2023 June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism.
In other news, a new fellowship offers First Nations writers the opportunity become a writer-in-residence at the University of Cambridge, and Affirm Press will sell and distribute titles by Little Book Press (LBP), the publishing arm of Raising Literacy Australia.
In the US, HarperCollins and private equity firm KKR are among bidders for Simon & Schuster, which owner Paramount Global is putting up for sale after the US government blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition last year; and 40% of 2022 children’s books released had a Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) author, illustrator or compiler, a new report has found. In the UK, Lucy Caldwell has won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel These Days (Faber); and US author Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2023 Women’s Prize for fiction, for her novel Demon Copperhead (Faber).
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