What's New
15 July 2010 - Prime Minister's Award shortlists announced - The Prime Minister's Literary Awards, held annually, recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy. The 2010 Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction and Children's Fiction shortlists have been announced. Nine children's fiction and seven young adult fiction works, as well as seven fiction and six non-fiction works have made the 2010 shortlist, selected from more than 320 entries.
Fiction titles are: Summertime by J. M. Coetzee; The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster; The Lakewoman by Alan Gould; Dog Boy by Eva Hornung; Ransom by David Malouf; Lovesong by Alex Miller; and As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong. See all the lists here.
9 July 2010 - ALS Gold Medal Winner announced - Ransom by David Malouf has been named the winner of this year's Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Ransom beat The Darwin Poems by Emily Ballou, The Lost Life by Steven Carroll, Dog Boy by Eva Hornung and The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy to take out the important award.
The annual award is presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for 'an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year' and was first awarded in 1899.
23 June 2010 - Miles Franklin Lierary Award Winner announced - Peter Temple was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award for 2010 on 22 June 2010 for his novel Truth. "Temple's winning novel is the much anticipated sequel to The Broken Shore and comprehends murder, corruption, family, friends, honour, honesty, deceit, love, betrayal - and truth. A stunning story about contemporary Australian life, Truth is written with great moral sophistication."
17 May 2010 - National Biography Award Winner announced - Brian Matthews has won the $20,000 National Biography Award for his book, Manning Clark: A Life published by Allen & Unwin. This year's winner was announced on 17 May 2010 in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at the State Library of New South Wales, where Clark did much of his research for his six-volume A History of Australia.
5 May 2010 - National Biography Award Shortlist announced - The shortlist for this year's $20,000 National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia by David Day; Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley by Brian Dribble; House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers; Manning Clark: A Life by Brian Matthews; Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe; and The Weight of Silence: A Memoir by Catherine Therese.
The winner will be announced on Monday 17 May as part of the Sydney Writers Festival.
21 April 2010 - Miles Franklin Shortlist announced - The shortlist for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced today. The shortlisted books are: Lovesong by Alex Miller, The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro, Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey, The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster, Truth by Peter Temple, and Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett. The winning title will be announced on 22 June.
