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Curry by Naben Ruthnum was released by Text this month. It’s an engaging little book that draws hilarious and sharp connections between curry and how it functions as shorthand for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social perception of the South Asian diaspora.
Shalini Kunahlan, our marketing manager was keen to try out Naben’s mother Kay’s prawn curry. Here’s Shalini to tell us all about what ended up being quite a challenging culinary adventure...
Recently Text held a competition to celebrate the release of the action-packed and alien-filled The Boy from Earth by Darrell Pitt.
We asked you to send us all your alien drawings and we got sent so many aliens that now we’re having to walk around the office with alien nets in case they all get loose!
Have a look at our winners and other scary alien entries.
Text is looking for talented people to fill two positions: Bookkeeper/Finance Coordinator, and Administration Coordinator.
(It Sounds Fantastic in Our Heads.)
Nina Kenwood is the winner of the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her novel It Sounded Better in My Head.
Nina gave a delightful and heartfelt speech at the awards night on 26 April, which she has kindly allowed us to share with you...
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein won the General Non-Fiction Book of the Year last night at the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Text’s Marketing Manager Shalini Kunahlan was voted the inaugural winner of the Rising Star Award at the Australian Book Industry Awards last night.
This award has been established to recognise emerging talent within the publishing industry and Text couldn’t agree more that Shalini is indeed a talented individual.
May is here and, along with it, a matchless slew of books that will set you up nicely for the coming cold months.
Have a look below at what we’ve got and head over to our Facebook page for your chance to win one.
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel.
The irrepressible Bram Presser has taken home three prizes from the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for his captivating, lyrical and impassioned novel The Book of Dirt.
Text is thrilled to announce that Nina Kenwood is the winner of the 2018 Text Prize for her debut, It Sounded Better in My Head. Nina receives a publishing contract with Text and a $10,000 advance against royalties. She accepted the award last night at the Text Prize party in Melbourne.
It Sounded Better in My Head is a tender, funny and joyful novel about longing, confusion, feeling left out and finding out what really matters – from an exciting new voice in Australian YA writing.
