From Publishing Perspectives: The next two-year post as Children’s Literature Laureate in Australia is taken up by Morris Gleitzman. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Where Young Imaginations Draw Strength’ The Australian Children’s Literature Alliance on Monday (February 12) announced author Morris Gleitzman as its new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018 and 2019. The biennially awarded laureateship highlights the work…
Category: Awards
THE MARROW THIEVES Wins Big!
Indigenous writer Cherie Dimaline’s timely and chilling speculative YA novel, THE MARROW THIEVES, has just won a 2017 Governor General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious literary award! And today, the book won the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature! Read the Publishing Perspectives interview with the author here.
ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP Is a CBCA Book of the Year!
The beautiful YA novel ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP by Claire Zorn (UQP) has won the 2017 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award in the Older Readers category. Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she’s dead, it’s worse…
DEMON Gets an Eisner!
Congratulations to author Jason Shiga and to publisher First Second for DEMON, Volume 1, which has won an Eisner Award (the most prestigious from the American comics industry) in the category Best Graphic Album, Reprint! DEMON’s four volumes compose a high-energy thriller about a suicidal accountant who wants to die but can’t, and the unspeakable chaos and astronomical body count…
THE LAST DAYS OF AVA LANGDON Makes the Miles Franklin Shortlist!
THE LAST DAYS OF AVA LANGDON by Mark O’Flynn (UQP) has made the shortlist for the most prestigious Australian literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Each of the shortlisted authors receives AU$5 000, and the winner will receive AU$ 60 000. The winner will be announced on 8 September.
Witi Ihimaera awarded prestigious French Order of Merit
Acclaimed Penguin Random House author Witi Ihimaera is among four New Zealanders who have been awarded France’s highest military and civil honour, Order of Arts and Letters. At the awards ceremony, New Zealand Ambassador Jeanblanc-Risler commended Ihimaera, “For your pivotal role in bringing Maori storytelling to the forefront and enabling its international recognition as a taonga from…
Miles Franklin Longlist Announced
We are thrilled to announce that THE LAST DAYS OF AVA LANGDON by Mark O’Flynn (UQP) has been named to the longlist of the prestigious Australian Miles Franklin literary award! A piercing and witty portrait of a true maverick It has been twenty years since Ava Langdon published her much-lauded novel The Apple Pickers. Now, she leads…
Javi Rey Gets Best New Author Award!
Congratulations to the very talented comic artist Javi Rey for his well-deserved “Best New Author” award at last weekend’s comics festival in Barcelona for his graphic novel adaptation for Planeta Comic of the novel INTEMPERIE by Jesus Carrasco.
HOPE FARM Wins the Barbara Jefferis Award!
Congratulations are due to author Peggy Frew and publisher Scribe as HOPE FARM wins Australia’s prestigious Barbara Jefferis Award! The award is given by the Australian Society of Authors for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women…
Ben Hatke’s LITTLE ROBOT Wins in San Diego!
Ben Hatke’s charming graphic novel LITTLE ROBOT won the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8) at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend! Ben’s books are about friendship and accepting responsibility without being overtly pedagogical in the process. And here’s Ben accepting the well-deserved award: Congratulations to Ben and to his wonderful…
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