tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17012782449094113392024-02-20T02:23:51.917+11:00Literary Festivals and Book AwardsReporting & Reflecting on the World of Literary Festivals and Book Awards Prizes. Authors. Books. Reviews. Award TragicKevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.comBlogger550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-90776971979064406762014-12-11T11:35:00.003+11:002014-12-11T11:35:17.017+11:00$600,000 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award WinnersThe 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners have been announced with three categories naming joint winners, and two of the winning authors donating their prize money to key organisations working toward change in AustraliaRichard Flanagan (this year’s Booker Prize winner) was named a joint winner for the Fiction Award and gave his full $40,000 prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-37478610085574933452014-12-11T10:59:00.002+11:002014-12-11T10:59:54.095+11:00Royal Marines Historical Society Literary Award Winner 2014
11-Dec-2014Fifty-two years ago, on December 8th 1962, the Borneo Revolt broke out in Brunei and Sarawak. Led by Sheikh A. M. Azahari, the North Kalimantan Nationalist Army took military action to thwart the planned formation of the Federation of Malaysia. The Revolt was a turning point in the history of Malaysia and Singapore, and in its wake came the crackdown on leftists in Singapore Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-59012956486058096432014-12-11T10:58:00.006+11:002014-12-11T10:58:48.381+11:00André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2014 Shortlists
The shortlist for the annual André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards has been announced. The awards are intended to showcase the best of contemporary drink and food writing.
The panel was guided by the help and advice of this year’s independent assessors, Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes and cookery writer and author Annie Bell.The shortlisted books for the 2014 drink category are:&Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-62088710918469716252013-06-28T12:55:00.005+10:002013-06-28T12:55:50.688+10:00Christian Fiction: Christy Book Award Winners 2013
The 2013 Christy Awards honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction were presented at the Renaissance Grand in St. Louis, Mo., USA, on June 24th
The 14th annual awards presentation highlighted the role of literary agents in the advancement of Christian fiction. Steve Laube of The Steve Laube Agency emceed the event, and Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary Agency presented Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-33919720769936802312013-06-20T09:09:00.002+10:002013-06-20T09:09:20.140+10:002013 Winners of UK Children's Books Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals'UNTEACHABLE' AUTHOR AND EMERGING ILLUSTRATOR ENTER CHILDREN'S BOOKS HALL OF FAMESALLY GARDNER WINS THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL WITH MAGGOT MOONLEVI PINFOLD SCOOPS THE CILIP KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL WITH ONLY HIS SECOND BOOK, BLACK DOGDyslexic author Sally Gardner - once branded 'unteachable' at school - has today (Wednesday 19th June) pipped Booker-winner Roddy Doyle to the post for this year's Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-51232496898351696832013-06-19T18:44:00.000+10:002013-06-19T18:44:08.922+10:00BeaconLit - The Beacon Villages festival of books and writing
A celebration of writing and books being held beneath the Ivinghoe Beacon landmark in the beautiful Chilterns countryside. Two top-class author panels, plus an a la carte section including writing workshop, book signings, storytelling, refreshments and more. Tickets £7.50 (£2.50 for young people in full time education; children aged 10 and under go free).
When? 22 June 2013, 12 noon to Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-66937841274720455722013-06-19T18:41:00.005+10:002013-06-19T18:41:45.943+10:002013 Trillium Book Award Winners
Four Ontario Authors Receive Province's Top Literary Award
TORONTO, June 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, the Trillium Book Award, were announced this evening by Michael Chan, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, at a dinner hosted by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC).
This year's winner for the Trillium Book Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-36893168355906222742013-06-19T18:06:00.001+10:002013-06-19T18:06:11.642+10:00Telegraph Way with Words Festival at Dartington Hall 5 - 15 July 2013
Ways With Words is a vibrant and joyful 10-day festival, a chance for those who read books to meet those who write them. The setting is glorious, the atmosphere is invigorating. People come together in spectacular surroundings to share the pleasure and power of language and ideas. The warmth and energy of this lively gathering make it a memorable occasion.
Few people who visit Dartington HallKevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-32451489154217651042013-06-19T14:01:00.002+10:002013-06-19T14:16:18.548+10:00Winner 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award Michelle de KretserThe winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award is Michelle de Kretser for her book- Questions of Travel . The work was recognised today at a ceremony at National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia’s capital coming out in front of a strong shortlist.
Ms. De Krester will receive a prize AU$60,000 for the novel which was judged to be of the highest literary merit and Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-37944621444703385262013-06-19T09:40:00.003+10:002013-06-19T09:40:56.643+10:00Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlist
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Tony Burke have announced the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists.
From children's books that excel in the art of storytelling through to revealing works of non-fiction and history, the 29 books on the 2013 shortlists represent the breadth and depth of the Australian story and imagination.
Now in their sixth year, the Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-25752449413366829162013-06-17T21:09:00.000+10:002013-06-17T21:09:00.321+10:00Tejas Star Book Award Winners The Tejas Star Book Award was created by the Region One ESC Library Advisory Committee to promote reading in general and for readers to discover the cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism. All the children of Texas had the opportunity to select their favorite book from the Tejas Star list during the 2012-2013 school year.
These are undoubtedly among the most Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-38083187674373395302013-06-16T21:30:00.000+10:002013-06-16T21:30:01.783+10:002013 Maine Readers’ Choice Award Shortlist
The 2013 Shortlist
The Committee has narrowed the list to ten titles. The nextround will be the final list that will go to the readers of Maine fortheir vote. Below the images are links to each author’s website.
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley CashLight Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanMr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-56387956784573315202013-06-16T11:18:00.000+10:002013-06-16T11:18:19.542+10:00Peter Hartcher Wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize
Award-winning journalist and author Peter Hartcher has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for The Sweet Spot: How Australia made its own luck – and could now throw it all away (Black Inc.)
In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history. He shows how a convict colony could have become a Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-33189680696325334382013-06-16T10:47:00.001+10:002013-06-16T10:47:03.653+10:00THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS BY TAN TWAN ENG WINS WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
The winner of one of the UK's richest literary prizes has been announced as Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng.
His second novel THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS has won him the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction from a shortlist which included two-time Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and a very strong line-up of internationally respected contenders
Tan Twan Eng travelledKevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-2489816318128304802013-06-14T07:30:00.000+10:002013-06-14T07:30:00.665+10:00Novelist Kirsten McDougall Wins Creative New Zealand 2013 Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary 13-Jun-2013
Novelist Kirsten McDougall has been awarded the 2013 Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary. McDougall has a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University and published her first novel, The Invisible Rider, to critical acclaim in 2012.
Wellington-based McDougall has also been published in Sport, Turbine and Big Weather: Poems of Wellington. She will use the bursary to Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-14883890082436309002013-06-13T20:30:00.000+10:002013-06-13T20:30:01.977+10:00Winners Sheikh Zayed Book Awards
Book Award tragic: Playing catch-up here. The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards Ceremony took place at the beginning of May, 2013, but, we wanted to acknowledge and recognise this import Middle Eastern Award that has gone from strength to strength in recent years
The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards Ceremony, celebrated as the most important cultural event in the Arab region, took place at the Abu Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-23078819715991452822013-06-13T19:01:00.002+10:002013-06-13T19:01:22.059+10:00New Book Award: The Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History
The Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History has been created by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. The prize, which carries an award of US$50,000, will be given annually in recognition of the best book in the field of military history published in English during the previous calendar year. The inaugural award will be made in February 2014 for a book published in 2013.
The winner of Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-47708755112563945242013-06-12T19:58:00.000+10:002013-06-12T19:58:34.430+10:00New Zealand’s Poet Laureate Ian Wedde Wins $40,000 Berlin Writer’s Residency.New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, will spend almost a year in Germany from October as this year’s recipient of the Creative New Zealand $40,000 Berlin Writer’s Residency.
Wedde plans to write both a book of linked stories and a sequence of poems. The poems are inspired by his German great-grandfather, Heinrich Augustus Wedde, who jumped ship in Wellington in the 1870s to marry a Danish Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-50830825705053551292013-06-12T19:43:00.003+10:002013-06-12T19:43:42.871+10:00Complete Winners List Benjamin Franklin Book Awards 2013
The Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest not-for-profit association of publishers in the United States, has announced the winners of the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award. A complete listing of all of the silver and gold award winners may be found below.
More than 250 gathered at the Marriot Marquis in New York just before BEA to celebrate the 164 silver and gold award winners of Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-43948683877478199632013-06-07T16:30:00.000+10:002013-06-07T16:30:00.330+10:002013 Winners and Honor Books Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Children's & Young Adult Literature
First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature.
Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category. On occasion, a book will receive a special citation for its high Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-5406457541629387792013-06-07T11:01:00.000+10:002013-06-07T11:01:01.457+10:00Ireland's Kevin Barry Wins the 100,000 euro (£81,000) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Irish author, Kevin Barry, has won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, City of Bohane.
"Kevin Barry's Ireland of 2053 is a place you may not want to be alive in, but you'll certainly relish reading about," commented the judges.
The prize is open to novels in any language which have been published in, or translated into, English.
Barry, the Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-63444820586201404472013-06-06T08:54:00.000+10:002013-06-06T09:02:10.572+10:00TS Eliot Festival
The Festival is a major literary and musical celebration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning writer
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). A weekend of lectures, readings and music, celebrating the life and work of TS Eliot in the splendid setting of Little Gidding for festival goers to share their interests and enthusiasms amidst the intimate surroundings of Little Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-85708404003923386732013-06-06T05:00:00.000+10:002013-06-06T05:00:03.931+10:002013 Ben Franklin Award Winner: Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream! The prestigious Ben Franklin Award given by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) was awarded to Smart Love Press, LLC for Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream! in the category of Children’s Picture Books. The award was announced at a ceremony in New York City on May 29, 2013.
Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., author of the book and publisher of Smart Love Press said, “It is a Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-26396410567785687452013-06-05T14:10:00.004+10:002013-06-05T14:10:46.638+10:002013 shortlists for the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards (Kibble Awards) Announced
As trustee and manager of one of the country’s most prestigious and long running
prizes for Australian women writers, Perpetual is delighted to announce the 2013 shortlists for the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards, with the judges hailing this year’s field as “exceptionally sophisticated, multifaceted, experimental and worldly in confidence, style and orientation”.
Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701278244909411339.post-20938604016248936092013-06-05T09:57:00.000+10:002013-06-05T09:57:00.754+10:00Australia's Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, August 2-4, 2013
On the easternmost point of Australia nestles the small town of Byron Bay. Once a community dependent on the whaling industry, the 1970’s brought visionary hippies and New Age folk to the region and Byron Bay’s rainbow, dolphin and alternative lifestyle aura was born. The wide pristine beaches are fringed with lush fecund rain forest and now the town is watched by whales as they make their Kevin Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06217050641577282694noreply@blogger.com0