Congratulations to Rohan Wilson and Justine Larbalestier whose books have been shortlisted for the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards! Rohan Wilson's To Name Those Lost is up for the Fiction prize, while Justine Larbalestier's Razorhurst has been nominated in the Young Adult category.
We are delighted to announce that Joan Beaumont's Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War picked up History prizes at both the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards!
Congratulations to Jayne Newling whose book Missing Christopher has been awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2014 Human Rights Award for Literature.
We are delighted to announce that We Were Liars by E. Lockhart has been voted Young Adult Fiction Book of the Year by Goodreads members!
The annual U.S. National Book Awards were established in 1936 and are one of the most venerable of all the American book awards. This year's winning titles were recently announced and we're excited to reveal that the winner of the Fiction category was Redeployment by Phil Kay - a collection of stories that make up a timeless portrait of the tragedy and folly of war.
The Queensland Literary Awards have revealed their shortlists and we're thrilled to report that three of our titles have been recognised.
Shortlists for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced and we're proud to reveal that the following Allen & Unwin authors have been recognised:
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies has revealed the winner of the 2013 Colin Roderick Award and we are delighted to announce that The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay has taken the prize.
Finalists in the prestigious Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were recently announced and we are absolutely thrilled that Paul Barry's Breaking News: Sex, lies and the Murdoch succession has been named as a finalist for the Walkley Book Award!