Congratulations to Darleen Bungey, author of
Arthur Boyd: A Life, winer of Biography of the Year at the
Australian Book Industry Awards.
Congratulations also to the Allen & Unwin marketing department, winner of Marketing Campaign of the year of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Allen & Unwin is excited to announce
The Lost Dog by Michelle De Krester has won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the NSW Premier's Awards.
The Lost Dog then went on the win Book of the Year. Congratulations Michelle.
To the Boy In Berlin has been awarded the Best Designed Young Adult Book for 2008 at the APA Book Design Awards. Congratulations to the designer Ruth Gruner.
We are pleased to announce that the following fantastic Allen & Unwin books have been shortlisted in the 2008 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. Congratulations to these fine authors and illustrators!
Younger Readers
Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp by Odo Hirsch
Older Readers
Love Like Water by Meme McDonald
Picture Book of the Year
The Island by Armin Greder
For more details please follow visit
Children’s Book Council of Australia
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and Nicki Greenberg and To the Boy in Berlin by Elizabeth Honey and Heike Brandt have been selected for the White Ravens 2008. This places them as 2 of the 250 outstanding new international books for children and young adults from the thousands of review copies received by the International Youth Library in Munich from all over the world in 2007. These books will be presented at the International Youth Library stand at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Boy A, by Jonathan Trigell, and published by Faber has won the World Book Day 'Spread the Word' Campaign as the best book to talk about. For more information visit the World Book Day Site
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz has won the coveted National Critics Book Award for Fiction in the US.
Tim Jeal, author of Stanley was the winner of the biography section. Both books are published by Faber.
Congratulations to the following authors whose titles has been nominated for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and Best First Book Awards for South East Asia and the South Pacific.
Best Book Award
Michelle De Kretser's The Lost Dog
Alex Miller's Landscape of Farewell
Best First Book Award
Stephen Scourfield's Other Country