Archive for the 'Awards' Category

The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced the winners of this year’s Book of the Year awards. For the full list of both the winning books and the honour books click here. Permit me a few moments of dreaming: I hope one day my name will be listed in these awards. Okay – dream [...]

Adelaide Writers’ Week 2010 On the first morning of this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week I was suddenly struck by the importance of the opening session. The panel on stage was a who’s who of Australian literature. Chair of the session was novelist David Malouf. The keynote speaker was novelist and historian Tom Keneally. The chairman [...]

Last week I attended three days of the six day Adelaide Writers’ Week. This is an important and integral part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts held every two years. This festival attracts readers and writers from all over Australia, as well as a glittering gathering of international writers who come as guest speakers. Each [...]

I bought this novel The Slap by acclaimed Australian author Christos Tsiolkas late last year as a birthday present to myself. I had heard so much comment about the novel that I wanted to read it. It was also short listed for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was winner of the 2009 Commonwealth [...]

January 26th is Australia Day, a special day celebrating the first landing of European settlers in Sydney Cove, 1788. The day is celebrated in many ways: family gatherings, picnics, barbecues, going to the beach, attending sporting events or just having a lazy day in the middle of the Australian summer. Every year for the last [...]