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Trading of Booktopia shares on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is suspended, pending an announcement from the company. Booktopia requested a trading halt on Friday, 13 June, anticipating it would... Read more |
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Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) will partner with Simon & Schuster (S&S) for its sales and distribution in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand from February next year. MUP titles are currently... Read more |
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The 2024 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which ran from 30 May until 2 June, was ‘a record-breaking festival across box office and book sales as well as audience attendance’, according... Read more |
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Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,... Read more |
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Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023).... Read more |
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Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was... Read more |
In the UK, Brotherless Night by US author V V Ganeshananthan (Viking) has won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world by Canadian... Read more |
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Grandmother takes her young grandchildren on a walk up a mountain in Trouwerner (Tasmania). As they walk together, Grandmother retells an ancient story of creation, sky, and the First Peoples... Read more |
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