We are delighted to announce that Camarade, the powerful new novel by acclaimed Cork poet and author Theo Dorgan, has been nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award – the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction, worth €100,000. Published in 2025 by Mercier Press, Ireland’s oldest independent publisher, Camarade is one of…
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TIG Wins the 2025 Governor General!
The middle-grade novel TIG by Heather Smith (Transatlantic Agency) has won Canada’ prestigeous Governor General’s Literary Award in the Young People’s Literature Text category! The Governor General’s Literary Awards celebrate literature and inspire people to read books by creators from Canada. Kirkus Reviews called it: “A moving, accessible tale of trauma, laced with a compelling sense…
First Second Awards in San Diego!
Congratulations to the First Second authors who have won four Eisner Awards at this year’s San Diego Comic Con! Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Graphic Album—New, and Gene Luen Yang won Best Writer! While Vera Brosgol’s Plain Jane and the Mermaid won Best Publication…
GHOST CITIES Wins the Miles Franklin!
GHOST CITIES by Siang Lu (UQP) has been named the 2025 winner of Australia’s most prestigious literary award. We are thrilled to represent Lu’s ingenious adaptation of Chinese history which reveals the absurdities, contradictions and political follies of modern life.
UQP Wins Small Publisher Award!
The University of Queensland Press has been named Australian Small Publisher of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards! We’re so proud of all our clients, but it’s great to see them recognised. Congratulations!
THE YIELD wins prestigious Miles Franklin Award, 2020
THE YIELD by Tara June Winch (Penguin Books Australia) has won Australia’s most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin Award. This is the second year in a row that one of our clients has won this prize!
THE WHITE GIRL and THE YIELD both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2020
Congratulations to two of our clients’ titles : THE WHITE GIRL (UQP) and THE YIELD (Penguin Books Australia) are both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Australian equivalent to the Booker prize. The judges noted that the books nominated this year deal with topics of racial and cultural dispossession and “demonstrate powerfully how past trauma…
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 