Kevin Hart delivers the Blaiklock Memorial Lecture on Robert Gray

We are thrilled to announce that PiO has won Australia's most prestigious poetry prize, the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award, for his epic work, Heide. Of Heide, the judges said: "This is an epic work of art history and so much more. Frequently hilarious and always...

The F Team Buy the book here Imagine living in a world where mirrors didn’t exist. You never saw yourself and you never knew what you looked like. That was my experience throughout high school as well as university – not only was a Muslim woman rare to find in print,...

Because of the COVID crisis some of our recent titles have tended to go unnoticed. For this reason, we would like to offer you two special packages, one devoted to our literary translations, the other to our new poetry titles. These offers will be available until...

We are delighted to share the news that Yumna Kassab has been shortlisted for the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Her short story collection, The House of Youssef, joins five other books by emerging writers on the shortlist, with the winner to be...

We are pleased to announce that Yumna Kassab has been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for her short story collection, The House of Youssef, and Pi.O has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe award for his epic poetry collection, Heide. Read the judges'...

The Novel Prize, which offers US$10,000 to the winner and publication of their novel, will close submissions on 1 July. The judges will be looking for novels which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style. The...

We are thrilled that Lisa Gorton, Joanne Burns, Fiona Wright and Yumna Kassab have been shortlisted in the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Gorton's Empirical and Burns' Apparently are shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, while Wright's book of...

Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh was launched by Philip Mead, at the Paperback Bookshop in Melbourne on 20 February, 2020. Below is an edited version of Mead's launch speech.  Welcome everyone. I’m delighted to be launching this latest collection of Ali Alizadeh’s...

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. The Novel Prize offers...

We are delighted that The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab has been longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, an award that celebrates women's writing. The House of Youssef is a debut collection of short stories remarkable for its minimalism. Set in the western suburbs of...

The House of YoussefYumna Kassab$24.95Buy hereThe 2020 Victorian Premier‘s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, and we are delighted that The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab has been selected for Fiction. The House of Youssef is a debut collection of short...

We are thrilled to announce that Judith Beveridge was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in Canberra on 23 October, for Sun Music: New and Selected Poems. See below for the full judges' comments.Sun Music: New and Selected PoemsJudith...

We are pleased to share the news that six Giramondo authors will feature at the Melbourne Writers Festival this year, including Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alexis Wright, Fiona Wright, Eunice Andrada and Fiona McGregor. Also appearing at the festival will be international...

Sun Music: New and Selected PoemsJudith Beveridge$26.95Buy hereThe Colin Roderick Award, a prize for the year's best original book, has announced the 2019 shortlist, and we are delighted that Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge has been chosen as one...

Indonesian author Norman Erikson Pasaribu, whose poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus Giramondo published in April, will be a guest of Queensland Poetry Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival in August and September. Norman will also appear in Sydney, joined by...

We are thrilled to announce that two Giramondo titles have been shortlisted for the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award, a poetry prize for a collection by a debut poet. They are Flood Damages by Eunice Andrade and The Hijab Files by Maryam Azam.  Please see below for links to...

Tom Lee has been chosen as one of this years' Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists for his first novel Coach Fitz. The award, given to writers who are 35 years or younger at the time of their book's publication, was judged by Felicity Castagna, Delia...

We are delighted to announce that three Giramondo titles have been shortlisted in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. They are Gerald Murnane's Border Districts for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Alexis Wright's Tracker for the Douglas Stewart Prize for...

We are thrilled to announce that two Giramondo authors were awarded 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in Canberra on 5 December. Gerald Murnane won the Fiction category with his 'perfectly formed short work', Border Districts, and Castro won the Poetry category...

We are pleased to announce that four titles published by Giramondo have been shortlisted for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Gerald Murnane's Border Districts in the Fiction category, and Bonny's Cassidy's Chatelaine, Brian Castro's Blindness...

Giramondo is thrilled to announced that Alexis Wright and Michael Farrell have been awarded 2018 Queensland Literary Awards. Wright was awarded the University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award for her "stunningly innovative" book Tracker, while Michael...

Giramondo has acquired A Novel Idea, a new book by author and performance artist Fiona McGregor. The book, a photoessay memoir that depicts McGregor’s writing of her Age Book of the Year award-winning novel Indelible Ink, will be published in March 2019....

Argentinian author Mariana Dimópulos, whose novel All My Goodbyes Giramondo published last year, will be holding several public events in Australia in August and September. Dimópulos will appear at events in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne,...

10 August We are pleased to share the news that four Giramondo authors will feature at the Melbourne Writers' Festival this August, including Ali Cobby Eckermann, Michael Farrell and New Zealand writer, Ashleigh Young. Also appearing at the festival will...

We are delighted to announce that Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography for her book, Tracker. Tracker, which also won the Stella Prize earlier in the year, is a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader,...

19 June2018 We are thrilled that Border Districts by Gerald Murnane and No More Boats by Felicity Castagna have been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award. The announcement was made at a ceremony in Canberra on Sunday, 17 June. Giramondo...

Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada was launched by award-winning poet and fiction writer, Michelle Cahill, at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville, NSW, on Thursday 10 May, 2018. Below is an edited version of Cahill's launch speech.  ...Flood Damages is...

Photo credit: Robin Wallace-Crabbe A eulogy delivered by Ivor Indyk at Beverley Farmer's memorial service at Queenscliff on Sunday 29 April 2018. It is difficult to write a formal eulogy for Beverley Farmer, because she was herself so much a writer of...

Image credit: Connor Tomas O'Brien 15 April 2018 Our heartfelt congratulations to Alexis Wright, who has been named winner of the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker. Her book is a collective memoir on the...

Felicity Castagna’s fiction novel No More Boats has been shortlisted for the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The book, which is about the unravelling of a man and a nation set against the backdrop of the Tampa Crisis, is competing in the Multicultural...

27 March 2018 Fiction writers Gerald Murnane and Ali Alizadeh have been longlisted for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for their respective works Border Districts and The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc. The ALS Gold Medal is an annual...

27 March 2018 Vanessa Berry and Brian Castro have each taken out first prize at the 2018 Mascara Avant-garde Awards for works published last year. Berry's Mirror Sydney (recently longlisted for the ABIA awards), has topped the nonfiction...

20 March 2018 We are proud to announce that nine Giramondo authors will be appearing at this year’s Sydney Writers' Festival. Running from 30 April to 6 May at a new temporary location at Carriageworks, the program – designed around the theme of ‘power’ by...

We are thrilled following the announcement that Tracker by Alexis Wright and This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer have been longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. Read the judges' comments below and visit the Stella Prize website for details...

5 February 2018 We're pleased to announce that Giramondo authors Ashleigh Young and Felicity Castagna will be appearing at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week (3–8 March 2018). Young will be speaking at two sessions alongside Patricia Lockwood, Sarah...

19 January 2018 Giramondo poets Corey Wakeling and Shevaun Cooley will be appearing across six sessions at the 2018 Perth Writers Week as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The authors are both originally from Western Australia, with Cooley an...

Congratulations to Alexis Wright for being shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction for her most recent book, Tracker, and to Jennifer Maiden for being shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry for her...

We congratulate Antigone Kefala for being shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry with her poetry collection, Fragments. Judges’ comments Antigone Kefala’s Fragments is a searing enactment of memory. Time demolishes us all in little...

This year the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, given to an outstanding collection of poetry by an Australian writer, was awarded to Antigone Kefala for her poetry collection Fragments. About the poet Antigone Kefala has written four works of fiction,...

A note from Ivor Indyk, Giramondo Publisher It is extraordinary how devoted we are to the north, when we take our literary bearings in Australia. Of course there is not a lot to the south of us in the way of literary precedents to follow, but to the east and west, in...

Brian Castro, author of Shanghai Dancing and The Garden Book, will attend this year's International Literature Festival being held in Berlin. Castro has been selected to attend the festival as part of the Literatures of the World program, which features world-renowned...

Congratulations to Aden Rolfe who has won this year's Mary Gilmore Award, a prize given to the best first book of poetry published in the previous year. About the poet Aden Rolfe is a writer and editor whose practice includes poetry, performance writing and criticism....

Award-winning poet, Alan Wearne, writes here about his most recent poetry collection, These Things Are Real. The collection is available here. Yes, poetry is an elitist pursuit, since not everyone can write it, nor can everyone read and enjoy it. Yet it is still the...

Congratulations to Michelle Cahill whose short story collection Letter to Pessoa won the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, a prize which recognises a published book of fiction written by an author who has not previously published a book-length work of narrative...

We are thrilled to announce that two Giramondo authors have been shortlisted for 2017 NSW Premier's Awards: Antigone Kefala is shortlisted for her poetry collection, Fragments, for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and Michelle Cahill is shortlisted for her short...

Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the 2017 Windham-Campbell award for poetry. She has said that the prize money, which totals A$215,000, is 'going to change my life completely'. Of Eckermann, the Windham-Campbell Prize website states: 'Through song and...

Giramondo author Sean Rabin has been shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction with his novel Wood Green set in a village on the slopes of Mt Wellington in Tasmania. Previously, the novel was shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian...

We are delighted to announce that Lisa Gorton has co-won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Michael Farrell was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. You can listen to Lisa's chat about her award-winning book with the...

Fiona Wright has been awarded The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award for Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger. Her collection of essays has also recently won the Kibble Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Of Small Acts of...

The Guardians by Lucy Dougan has won the Western Australia Premier's Award in the poetry category. The award ceremony took place at the State Library of Western Australia on 3 October. Of the poetry collection, the judges said: 'Seemingly simple, actually very dense...

Alexis Wright has won the 2016 Kate Challis Award with her novel, The Swan Book. In their citation the judges noted: 'Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is a sprawling, magnificent achievement, a remarkable imaginative vision of Australia as it was and is, and will be. Set...

Ali Cobby Eckermann's collection of poems, Inside My Mother, is one of three titles shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. The winner of the $20,000 award will be announced on 7 September, coinciding with Indigenous...

Wood Green by Sean Rabin has been shortlisted for the 2016 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Now in its third year, the aim of the award is to recognise 'exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature'. On Wood Green the judges commented: 'Set...

Two Giramondo poets have been shortlisted for the 2016 Western Australian Premier’s Poetry Award: Lucy Dougan for The Guardians and Jennifer Maiden for The Fox Petition. The judges said of The Guardians: 'Seemingly simple, actually very dense poetry, Dougan’s...

We are excited to announce that Fiona Wright has won the 2016 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for her collection of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance. The Award, which is worth $30 000, celebrates female writers and their impact on life writing. The judges said: “With...

We’re excited that Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond has been shortlisted for the National Biography Award. The Award was established in 1996 by Dr Geoffrey Cains and is administered and presented by the State Library of NSW. The total prize value is $31,000 –...

We’re delighted that Fiona Wright has been shortlisted for the Kibble Award for Established Writers for her essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance. Established in 1994, the Kibble Awards recognise Australian female literary talent in honour of Nita Kibble, the...

We’re delighted that two Giramondo authors received awards at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. joanne burns won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for brush of which the judges said: ‘While apparently modest in scope this intrepid and original poetry’s...

We are delighted to have so many authors shortlisted for this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.   Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Lisa Gorton The Life of Houses Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance Kenneth Slessor Prize...

We're thrilled that Judith Beveridge has been awarded the Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her work, 'As Wasps Fly Upwards'. On winning the prize, Judith said: I am deeply honoured to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, not only because of the high regard I have for...

The Swan Book continues to attract critical acclaim as it has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014. For the full list of longlisted titles, click here. The Swan Book has also been shortlisted for the Stella Prize. The judges said: A hundred years...

We are delighted to have three authors on the shortlist this year for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Fiction The Swan Book, Alexis Wright The judges described The Swan Book as: A work of metaphysical and metaphorical originality, Wright has created a world...

Gig Ryan's New and Selected Poems was awarded the NSW Premier's Literary Award for poetry. The judges described the collection as 'uncompromising, intelligent and sophisticated'. For the full citation, click here. John Mateer's Southern Barbarians was...