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Vikki Wakefield’s Friday Brown has won the Young Adult Fiction category in the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
The ‘Trapped in the Closet’ writers' residency, the ‘Crate of a Large Sheepdog’ writers' residency and other possible writers' residencies.
Quiz: Which book came first?
My Grandfather’s Library: a tumblr for book lovers.
‘Women had their Eureka moment, too’: Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka reviewed in the Australian.
It’s okay, everyone, standard written English is not atrophying, the world is not ending, we can all buy hot chips.
‘An Unnecessary Woman is an utterly unique love poem to the book and to the tenacity of the feminine spirit,’ says the Los Angeles Times.
‘A skilled translator must bring her own creativity to the mix, for she is creating a parallel imaginative work’: Antony Shugaar, translator of Davide Enia’s On Earth as It Is in Heaven, on the rules of translation.
Listen to Margaret Drabble chat with Richard Fidler on ABC Radio.
The latest VIDA Count of women’s representations in media was released today, and there’s a piece on their blog about what it takes for a book by a woman to be considered a ‘classic’.
‘A beautifully observed contemplation of life’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the Guardian.
Adorable photos of famous authors kissing and being kissed.
Classic literature depicted in Lego. I’m pretty sure Batman in Dracula isn’t quite canon.
10 cosy reading nooks to nestle into with a good book.
‘In fiction, the landscape is transforming.’ The Australian interviews David Vann, in town for the Perth Writers Festival.
You can also catch David in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre on 26 February and 27 February, at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 27 February, and at Read more
‘I have spent most of my reading life consuming novels, yet it is this short-story collection that stands out most vividly from what I have read in the last four or five years,’ says Lynette Field on the Meanjin blog.
