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From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nation’s young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with ...
Event description An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her … About this event Kavita Bedford joins Nikki Gemmell to discuss her new book The Ripping Tree, an intense, sharp tale of survival written in Gemmell’s signature lyrical prose, but with audacious overtones. This is a thrilling examination of Australia’s dark colonial history. Conceptualised by Gemmell on her return to Australia after 15 years living in the UK, this novel has taken her nine years to craft. It is her love letter to Austr...
Dylan Van Den Berg… won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. CANBERRAâS Dylan Van Den Berg took out the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for “Milk” at the NSW Premierâs Literary Awards yesterday (April 26). Van Den Berg accepted the award at the State Library of NSW, where a total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prizes. Van Den Bergâs win was announced alongside people such as Ellen van Neerven, who won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year, and Kate Grenville, who won the Christina Stead Prize for Ficti...
âMy secret felt like a splinterâ: My childhood desperation to hide my deafness Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Fiona Murphy Save Normal text size Advertisement We talk about secrets as if they are physical things. They are a burden we carry. They sit heavily on our consciousness. These metaphors, it turns out, have real-world properties: secrets literally weigh bodies down. Researchers have found that individuals with secrets move differently â perceiving hills to be steeper, distances farther â compared to those ...
Advertisement Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing. But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019. Lim said they did not see their achievement as a milestone because the inclusion of non-binary and tran...