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15 Apr 2019

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2019: Introducing the Fellows (round one) / New & emerging writers

Our Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2019. Find out who's been selected, and take a peek at the projects the first intake of Fellows will be working on.

17 Apr 2019

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The Stella Prize winner in conversation / Awards & prizes

With Louise Swinn and Vicki Laveau-Harvie

The 2019 Stella Prize shortlist is testament to the depth of talent in women's writing in Australia today. The shortlisted books – ranging across fiction and non-fiction – are innovative, funny, enriching and erudite. Now, the judges face the difficult task of choosing a winner.

The Stella Prize was founded to elevate the writing of Australian women with an annual…

30 Apr 2019

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Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room / Fiction

With Rachel Kushner and Ellena Savage

‘This is a story that gets to the root of how my society is structured right now … There’s a way that prison is invisible to a middle-class person. It’s not a conspiracy, but it may be by design in certain regards. It’s a serious subject for a novelist.’

Rachel Kushner is among America’s brightest literary stars. With her previous…

9 May 2019

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Andrew Sean Greer: The Less We Know / Fiction

With Andrew Sean Greer and Benjamin Law

When his novel Less won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Andrew Sean Greer tweeted, he ‘had just persuaded a dog to let me put her into polka dot pajamas (not my dog)’. He literally didn’t believe the news.

Readers clearly feel otherwise. Less tells the story of Arthur Less – a writer fearing his own mediocrity and middle age…

31 Jan 2019

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Behrouz Boochani Wins the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature / Awards & prizes

The winners of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced tonight at a ceremony at MPavilion in Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne.

Podcast episode

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Mireille Juchau / Books, reading & writing

A writer of novels, short fiction and essays, Mireille Juchau has quietly emerged as one of Australia’s most accomplished literary voices. Her first two novels, Machines for Feeling and Burning In, won critical acclaim and appearances on the Vogel’s and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists. Her third novel, The World Without Us, is very much the book of the moment – winning this year’s prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and shortlisted for the Stella Prize.

Juchau’s work deals with big personal and political subjects – from grief and abandonment to climate change. The World Without Us centres on a family who has lost a child, and a community adrift after a calamitous fire; it’s the kind of territory that can veer lesser writers into melodrama. But reviews of Juchau’s work, both in Australia and internationally, have stressed the subtlety and restraint of her prose as well as its vivid imagery. The Times Literary Supplement called The World Without Us ‘elegantly poised and controlled’. Independent on Sunday called it ‘understated and calm, and yet thoroughly captivating’.

In conversation with Michael Williams, Juchau discusses writing the intimate, the political and The World Without Us.

Books and Ideas at Montalto series sound design and music: Jon Tjhia.

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22 Mar 2013

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Friday High Five: iPad babies and classically bad covers / Animals & nature

By Jo Case

8 Aug 2011

‘The Age’ Announces Nominees for its Book of the Year / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Age has announced the shortlists for its Book of the Year prizes. The prizes will be awarded to books in three categories with $10,000 each (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) with an overall prize to be chosen from among the three, worth an additional $10,000.

The shortlists are:

Fiction

Like Being a Wife, Catherine Harris (Vintage)

The Mary Smokes Boys, Patrick Holland…

9 Jul 2018

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2018: Introducing the Fellows (round two) / Books, reading & writing

1 May 2014

Past event

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The Stella Prize: One Year On / Sexual & gender politics

With Aviva Tuffield, Clare Wright, and Carrie Tiffany

4 Jul 2011

Community History Awards / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

The Public Record Office of Victoria is administering this year’s Community History Awards, which previously were hosted by Information Victoria. Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the awards “recognise the contributions made by Victorians to the preservation of Victoria’s heritage”.

Although books dominate the award winners' lists, winners also include CDs, museum exhibitions and, among last year’s winners, a local history tour…

4 Feb 2011

In Other Words / Words & language

By Alex Landragin

Speaking of translation, Media Bistro has published another one of its ‘mix tapes’. This one is described as a special literary sampler of the novels longlisted to win the Best Translated Book Award for novels published in the US in 2010. The longlist features works from 19 countries in 12 languages.

The awards are in their 5th year. They’re run by Three Percent, a…

30 Sep 2018

Past event

Promo image for The Next Chapter 2018 Announcement: Benjamin Law and Sophie Black in conversation with the first recipients

The Next Chapter 2018 Announcement: Benjamin Law and Sophie Black in conversation with the first recipients / New & emerging writers

With Benjamin Law and Sophie Black

27 Jun 2014

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Promo image for Friday High Five: Evie Wyld's win, the CIA and Doctor Zhivago

Friday High Five: Evie Wyld’s win, the CIA and Doctor Zhivago / Media

By Jo Case

19 Jun 2013

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Michelle De Kretser wins Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

16 Jan 2014

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Working with Words: Henry Reynolds / Awards & prizes

By Jo Case

20 Sep 2010

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Mantel Eyes Off Prize / Awards & prizes

8 May 2012

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Working with Words: Tony Birch / Creativity

By Jo Case

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PM’s Literary Awards Winners in Conversation / Books, reading & writing

With Thuy On, Elizabeth Tynan, and Ryan O'Neill

26 Jul 2012

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Working with Words: Mark McKenna / Creativity

By Jo Case

28 May 2013

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Why We Need a Literary Award To Engage Male Readers / Sexual & gender politics

Guest post by Paul Mitchell

16 Oct 2012

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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Dinner / Awards & prizes

With Casey Bennetto

23 Feb 2011

McEwan Criticises “Nihilism” of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Awards & prizes

By Alex Landragin

About a month ago we reported on Ian McEwan’s win of the Jerusalem Prize. McEwan’s acceptance of the prize led him to be accused of tacitly condoning some of the more controversial aspects of the Israeli government’s policy in relation to Palestinians and the occupied territories. McEwan himself defended the decision to accept the prize. The prestige of the Jerusalem Prize overshadows its modest…

29 Mar 2012

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