Okay, so last week I said that post would be the end of the current little run of awards posts - but then I saw the announcement of this year's Best Young Australian Novelists award, and decided we could cope with just one more. I really will try to offer something new (or, do I … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Best Young Australian Novelists (5)
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Miles Franklin Award 2023 longlist
I haven't posted a Miles Franklin longlist for a while, but when I saw today's come through with its intriguing mix of titles, I decided it was time to do one again. The longlist Kgshak Akec, Hopeless kingdom (UWAP) Robbie Arnott, Limberlost (Text) (my review) Jessica Au, Cold enough for snow (Giramondo) (my review) Shankari … Continue reading Miles Franklin Award 2023 longlist
Monday musings on Australian literature: Hilary McPhee Award
I'm on a roll! That is, this week's Monday Musings is another post on a lesser known literary prize. I'll probably stop here for a while, but I came across this one in my notes, and thought, why not? The award is the Hilary McPhee Award (obviously, given the post title!) and is managed by … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Hilary McPhee Award
Monday musings on Australian literature: Melbourne Prize for Literature
Having posted on a literary prize last week - the ACT Book of the Year Award - I decided that I may as well do another one, and give us a break from my recent run of historically-focused Monday Musings posts. This week's award is another geographically limited one, the Melbourne Prize for Literature. This … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Melbourne Prize for Literature
Monday musings on Australian literature: the ACT Book of the Year Award
I think it's time I dedicated a post to the Book of the Year Award made in my own jurisdiction. I briefly introduced it back in 2018, and then wrote recently about its 2022 shortlist. But today, I want to document it a bit more thoroughly. (For the record, the 2022 winner has now been … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: the ACT Book of the Year Award
Stella Prize 2023 Winner announced
The 2023 Stella Prize winner was announced tonight and, for the second year in a row, it's a poetry collection ... Sarah Holland-Batt's The jaguar Darn it! I nearly bought it last weekend when I was at the National Library but with my move and having stuff everywhere, I put it back down again and … Continue reading Stella Prize 2023 Winner announced
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (6), Why waste time reading novels?
My next Trove Treasure is not, strictly speaking, Australian, because it features the English humorist Jerome K. Jerome. But, I found it reported in multiple Australian newspapers, which means that many Australians probably read it, and that makes it at least a bit relevant here. The first one I found was in The Inverell Times … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (6), Why waste time reading novels?
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (5), Church and novel reading
You'll be getting sick of my time-is-short posts, but rest assured that this too shall pass - eventually! Meanwhile, here is another Trove Treasure post. It shares two different responses to reading from churches, in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. What the churches thought Reading novels IN church Courtesy: Clker.com On … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (5), Church and novel reading
Myra Morris, The inspiration (#Review, #1940 Club)
As I have done for some previous "year" reading weeks*, I decided for 1940 to read a short story by an Australian author. After a bit of searching I settled on Myra Morris, and her story "Inspiration", because ... let me explain. My last two Australian contributions for these reading weeks were works by men … Continue reading Myra Morris, The inspiration (#Review, #1940 Club)
Monday musings on Australian literature: 1940 in fiction
As many of you know by now, Karen (Kaggsy's Bookish Rambling) and Simon (Stuck in a Book) run "reading weeks" in which they nominate a year from which "everyone reads, enjoys, posts and shares wonderful books and discoveries from the year in question". The current year is 1940, and it runs from today, 10-16 April. … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: 1940 in fiction
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