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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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14 April 2010 - Commonwealth Writers Prize announced - 'Siddon Rock'by Blue Mountains author Glenda Guest is the winner of the best first book award in this year's Commonwealth Writers Prize. 'Solo' by Rana Dasgupta was the winner of the overall Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book. The awards were announced in New Delhi.

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31 March 2010 - CBCA Shortlist announced - The shortlist for the 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards has been announced.

'With the nation's focus on literacy, history and literature as part of the National Curriculum, the Prime Minister has given us the message that "teaching kids to read is deadly serious",' said CBCA National President Marj Kirkland. 'It's equally important to get the message across that reading for pleasure is lots of fun. It takes the combined effort of the whole community--government, parents and schools--to create a literate Australia. The importance of parents reading aloud to children and the staffing of school libraries with professionally trained teacher-librarians are two issues needing attention: we need to connect Aussie kids with Aussie books written especially for them.'

The shortlisted titles can be found at: CBCA Shortlist

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17 March 2010 - Miles Franklin Award Longlist announced - The titles longlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award have been announced. This year's judging panel was made up of Morag Fraser, Richard Neville, Gillian Whitlock, Lesley McKay and Murray Waldren.

Said Fraser: 'It is exciting to discover new voices, and even more so when they are as accomplished and challenging as the debut authors on this year's Miles Franklin longlist. The newcomers stand alongside some of the great names of Australian literature, writers who have helped define Australian culture and deepen our understanding of ourselves. For range and diversity, this is an outstanding Miles Franklin list.'

Deborah Foster, Blue Mountains resident Glenda Guest and Patrick Allington have all been nominated for debut novels; Alex Miller, Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey and David Foster have all previously won the award.

The award shortlist will be announced in April, with the winner to be awarded at a presentation dinner on 22 June.

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11 March 2010 - Siddon Rock awarded - Siddon Rock by Australian author Glenda Guest was announced as the winner of the South East Asia and Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP) for Best First Book. The Adventures of Vela by Samoan author Albert Wendt was the South East Asia and the Pacific regional winner of the CWP Best Book prize. The two titles will now be in the running for the overall Commonwealth Writers Prize, along with the regional winners of the two categories from Africa, Caribbean and Canada and South Asia and Europe.

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1 February 2010 - The Lost Man Booker Prize announced - This is a one-off prize to honour books published in 1970 which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize. In 1971 the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became, as it is today, a prize for the best novel in the year of publication. As a result of these changes, there was a wealth of fiction published in 1970 which fell through the net.

The shortlist will be chosen from a longlist of 22 books which would have been eligible and are still in print and generally available today. The shortlist will be announced in March and the international reading public will decide the winner by voting via the Man Booker Prize website. The overall winner will be announced in May.

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4 January 2010 - Costa Prize 2009 - The winner of the Costa Novel Prize for 2009 was Colm Toibin for his novel Brooklyn, after having being pipped at the finishing line for several awards in the past.

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3 December 2009 - John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2009 - The winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 2009 was Evie Wyld for her debut novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, overcoming competition from an exceptional shortlist.

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2 December 2009 - 2009 INKY Winners Announced - The winners of this year's INKY Awards, the only award in Australia that reflects what teenagers want to read were announced on 2 December. The Gold INKY went to Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah, while the Silver INKY went to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

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26 November 2009 - 2009 Walkley Literary Award Winner Announced - The winner of this year's Walkley Award for a Non-Fiction book was announced on 26 November. The winner was: Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg - the judges praised Freudenberg's writing for bringing a lifetime of thought, experience and judgment to the subject.

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9 November 2009 - 2009 Walkley Finalists Short List - Literary - The short list for this year's Literary Walkley Awards was announced on 9 November. The three works were: Churchill and Australia, Graham Freudenberg; The Mother of Mohammed, Sally Neighbour; Firepower, Gerard Ryle; - the winner will be announced on 26 November, 2009.

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3 November 2009 - Prime Minister's Literary Awards Winners Announced - The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced - 2009 Fiction winner: The Boat by Nam Le - Two books share the 2009 Non-Fiction award: House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers and Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds. The winners in both categories receive $100,000.

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21 October 2009 - Shaun Tan and Marcus Zusak win German award - Australian authors Shaun Tan and Marcus Zusak have been announced as winners at the German Children's Literature Prize, Germany's leading awards for children's and Young Adult books. Tan took out the award for best illustrated book for Tales From Outer Suburbia and Zusak won the Youth Jury prize for The Book Thief.

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14 October 2009 - 2009 Walkley Finalists - Literary - The nominees for this year's Literary Walkley Awards were announced on 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were: Churchill and Australia, Graham Freudenberg; To The Bitter End, Peter Hartcher; Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, Jenny Hocking; The Birth Wars, Mary-Rose MacColl; The Henson Case, David Marr; Darwin's Armada, Iain McCalman; The Mother of Mohammed, Sally Neighbour; Killer Company, Matt Peacock; Firepower, Gerard Ryle; The Killing of Caroline Byrne, Robert Wainwright - a shortlist of three finalists will be announced on Monday 9 November, 2009.

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8 October 2009 - Nobel Prize for Literature - Romanian-born German writer Herta Muller has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. The Svenska Akademien hailed her as "[she], who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".

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7 October 2009 - Man Booker Prize Winner - The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced - the winner was Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

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28 September 2009 - Indies Award Winner Announced - Jasper Jones, the highly acclaimed novel by West Australian author Craig Silvey, has been named the winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year. Now in its second year, The Indie Book Award is chosen by the country's independent booksellers who select their favourite Australian books of the last 12 months.

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17 September 2009 - Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlist - The shortlisted titles for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett. This year's award attracted 254 books, 60 more than were submitted last year. For details of the shortlisted titles in Fiction and Non-Fiction click on the link above. The winners in both categories will each receive $100,000 and will be announced by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd later this year at a date to be confirmed.

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8 September 2009 - Man Booker Prize Shortlist - The Man Booker Prize shortlist for 2009 was announced - The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt; Summertime, J.M. Coetzee; The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds; Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel; The Glass Room, Simon Mawer; The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters - winner to be announced 6 October 2009.

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31 August 2009 - The Spring Reading Guide - was in the Blue Mountains Gazette in late August - click here to view online or pick one up in store.

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24 August 2009 - Books Alive 2009 - this Federal Government Program kicked off again on 26 August until 30 September and we are participating - ask in store for more details - or send us a message.

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24 August 2009 - The Indies Award - Now in its second year, The Indie Book Award is all about Australian independent booksellers showing the strength of their support for Australian authors and celebrating the very best of Australian writing - ask in store for more details - or send us a message.

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21 August 2009 - Childrens Book Council Awards - The 2009 winners were announced, with the winners being Tales from Outer Suburbia, Perry Angel's Suitcase, How to Heal a Broken Wing, Collecting Colour, and Alive in the Death Zone.

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8 August 2009 - Man Booker Prize Longlist - The Man Booker Prize longlist for 2009 was announced with "one of the strongest lists in recent memory".

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