Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners, Baillie Gifford Prize winner, inaugural Hope Prize calls for submissions
The 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners were announced this week. Meanwhile, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) presented the ASA Medal and the O’Donnell Essay Prize during the Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote event; and a new Australia-based international writing prize, The Hope Prize, opened for submissions of short fiction and nonfiction.
In other local awards news, the winners of the Newcastle Poetry Prize were announced, and the ASA revealed the shortlist for this year’s Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the 2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners were also announced.
In the UK, John Vaillant has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather (Sceptre), while in the US, the winners of the 2023 National Book Awards have been announced. Meanwhile, the Bookseller reported that French media company Vivendi has closed the sale of publishing house Editis to International Media Invest.
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