Giramondo is delighted to be well represented across three categories of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2015 shortlists.

We are thrilled that Felicity Castagna has won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction for her work The Incredible Here and Now.

We’re delighted that Brian Castro has won the Patrick White Literary Award. This award is for an author’s body of work and was founded by White with the proceeds of his Nobel Prize for Literature.

We’re delighted that Felicity Castagna’s The Incredible Here and Now has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction.

We’re thrilled that Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s book The Tribe and Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man have been shortlisted for the inaugural Readings New Writing Award.

At the Mildura Writers’ Festival this year, Lisa Gorton was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, an annual prize given to an Australian writer whose work reflects the standards and literary accomplishments that Philip Hodgins.

Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2014 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Swan Book.

We’re delighted that The Recluse, Evelyn Juers, has been shortlisted for the Magarey Medal. The prize is awarded to the female author who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject in the preceding two years.

We’re delighted that Luke Carman has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Best Young Novelists in 2014 for An Elegant Young Man.

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Awards.

Judith Beverdige has received the FAW CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN AWARD. It is an award to honour an Australian poet who has written work of sustained quality and distinction.

We’re pleased to have three titles shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. You can read the judges’ comments below.

We are delighted that The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards in the Older Readers category.

The Swan Book continues to attract critical acclaim as it has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014 and shortlisted for the Stella Prize.

We’re thrilled to have two titles shortlisted for the 2013 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

We’re delighted that Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden was awarded the prize in the poetry category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and also the overall prize, The Victorian Prize for Literature. You can view the judges’ report here. Read Gig Ryan’s in-depth review for the Sydney Review of Books here. Jason Steger’s coverage of […]