Childrens Book Council of Australia “Short List Announced” for 2012

Winners to be announced in August 2012. Below are the nominated titles for each category!

Picture Book category

Younger Readers category

Older Readers category

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category

Early Childhood category

2012 Orange Prize for fiction – the short list is here!

The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world.

Here are the 2012 shorlisted titles:

• Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues Serpent’s Tail
• Anne Enright The Forgotten Waltz Jonathan Cape 
• Georgina Harding Painter of Silence Bloomsbury
• Madeline Miller  The Song of Achilles Bloomsbury
• Cynthia Ozick Foreign Bodies Atlantic Books
• Ann Patchett State of Wonder Bloomsbury

The winner will be announced on the 30th of May.

National Biography Award – long list announced

Twelve amazing stories have been longlisted from a record 63 entries in the 2012 National Biography Award.

• Robyn Arianrhod Seduced by Logic, University of QLD Press
• Tim Bonyhady Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family, Allen & Unwin
• A J Brown Michael Kirby: Paradoxes & Principles, The Federation Press
• Pamela Burton From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story, UWA Publishing
• Sophie Cunningham Melbourne, NewSouth Publishing
• Delia Falconer Sydney, NewSouth Publishing
• John Howard Lazarus Rising, Harper Collins
• Paul Kelly How to Make Gravy, Penguin
• Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, Melbourne University Publishing
• Martin Thomas The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist, Allen & Unwin
• David Walker Not Dark Yet, Giramondo Publishing
• Patrick Wilcken, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bloomsbury

The National Biography Award is administered and presented by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award’s benefactors, Dr Geoffrey Cains and Mr Michael Crouch AO. See the National Biography Award page on the State Library of NSW web site here.