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To enter and for further information, please visit www.melbourneprize.org.
Open to Victorian residents only and published authors.
Categories:
- Melbourne Prize for Literature 2024—$60,000
- The Writers Prize 2024—$10,000
- Falls Creek Writers Residencies 2024
- Civic Choice Award 2024—$1,500.
Celebrating 20 years.
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Text Publishing congratulates Kate Grenville on Restless Dolly Maunder’s shortlisting for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024.
Grenville is the first Australian to be shortlisted twice for this award. She remains the only Australian to have won the award, in 2001 (when it was the Orange Prize) for The Idea of Perfection.
Grenville commented: ‘What an honour to be standing beside so many powerful books bringing women’s experiences to readers. Women’s books have so often been overlooked in the big noisy world of literary prizes—the Women’s Prize has been a really important part of changing that. I’m hugely grateful for having been awarded it for The Idea of Perfection in 2001—it gave my writing life a second chance when it seemed to be over. Now, I can only think how astonished and delighted my grandmother would be to have her story brought to the world in this way.’
Michael Heyward of Text observed: ‘What makes Restless Dolly Maunder so compelling and moving to read is that it fully imagines the life of Kate Grenville’s grandmother without inventing or embellishing the details of her life. Fiction is about understanding what it means to see the world through someone else’s eyes, and that’s why Restless Dolly Maunder is a great novel. Everyone at Text congratulates Kate on her marvellous achievement.’
Restless Dolly Maunder is out now in paperback [9781922790651, $34.99].
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BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2024 Danger Awards are closing 5 pm May 13. Categories include: best crime fiction, best crime fiction debut, crime non-fiction, and for the second time, a People’s Choice Award will be presented, covering all three categories, sponsored by OverDrive.
The Danger Awards will be presented during this year’s BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, from 11 to 14 September. In addition to the Danger Award trophy, each winner will receive $1000 in prize money and will be invited to speak at BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2025. See www.badsydney.com.
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