Bookselling News
3 May 2012 - 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award announced - The shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood by Tony Birch; All That I Am by Anna Funder; Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears; Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse; and Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett. The winner of this year's award, worth $50,000, will be announced on 20 June at the State Library of Queensland.
13 April 2012 - 2012 IMPAC Shortlist announced - Australian author Jon Bauer has been shortlisted for his novel Rocks in the Belly for this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the most valuable award for a novel published in English, presented each year to promote excellence in world literature. The other shortlisted titles are: The Matter with Morris by David Bergen; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna; Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor; Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes; Landed by Tim Pears; Limassol by Yishai Sarid; The Eternal Son by Cristovao Tezza; and Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin. The winner of this year's award will be announced on 13 June.
28 March 2012 - 2012 Miles Franklin Award Longlist announced - Female authors make up seven of the 13 authors on a strong longlist for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award. The $50,000 prize goes to the novel of the year judged to be of the highest literary merit which “must present Australian life in any of its phases”. The longlist includes: Tony Birch, Blood; Steven Carroll, The Spirit of Progress; Mark Dapin, Spirit House; Virginia Duigan, The Precipice; Anna Funder, All That I Am; Kate Grenville, Sarah Thornhill; Gail Jones, Five Bells; Gillian Mears, Foal's Bread; Alex Miller, Autumn Laing; Frank Moorhouse, Cold Light; Favel Parrett, Past The Shallows; Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper; and Charlotte Wood, Animal People
The shortlist will be announced on May 3 and the award will be presented to the winner in Brisbane on June 20.
10 March 2012 - 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award announced - All That I Am by Anna Funder has been selected by independent booksellers as their favourite Australian book from the past 12 months. Funder's novel won the Indie Book of the Year Award at this year's Indie Awards, which were presented at the 2012 Leading Edge Books Conference in Melbourne on 10 March. All That I Am also won the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction
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