ART DECO 1910-1939
National Gallery of Victoria
28 June – 5 October 2008
If the enormous crowd attending the NGV International on the Wednesday evening leading up to the final week of the Art Deco 1910-1939 exhibition was anything to go by, then this was another success in our National Gallery’s block-buster events calendar. Of course it was a reminder that it is ill-advised to leave it until the last minute to head to the Gallery for a big show; this one had been the most popular programme ever held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and it appears Melbourne had similarly embraced it!
Immediately the Art Deco style greeted us as we walked through the special lit-up entrance columns to the gallery doors. A “buzz” was generated from the crowd in the foyer area which increased as tables full of people talking and drinking wine extended into the Great Hall. The line waiting for tickets wound up and down like a huge python; it probably turned off a number of people who decided not to persevere with something possibly resembling a queue for Grand Finals tickets.
Into the exhibition space and it was again a dense line on all sides as we shuffled past display cases. Seen as mere glimpses, there was a tantalising representation of the style in furniture, jewellery, ceramics, art and photography, industrial design, architecture, fashion and textile design, household items and, for this visitor, the surprise of beautifully bound books decorated in rich Art Deco covers.
At the City of Boroondara Library Service we might not have examples of these exquisitely tooled leather volumes, but we do have many books on Art Deco that can be borrowed and longingly pored over at home. If you didn’t get to the exhibition, the catalogue is available for loan. Whether it is our museums or wonderful galleries that you have enjoyed visiting, it is worth following up special interests at the libraries.
In the week of the Grand Final and school holidays, the NGV was also infused with the excitement of the city. It is impossible to give a fair account of the exhibition because the experience was so coloured by the crush of people and noise (just like a Grand Final?) but the style, sophistication, opulence and beauty of Art Deco left its elegant impression.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Online Photo Albums
Do you have a digital camera and like to take snapshots of the family?
Want to know what to do next?
Then come along to this session which introduces you to:
- Saving photos to online photo albums
- Sharing your photos with family and friends
- Editing and playing with your photos
- Despatching photos for printing
We will have a live demonstration of various online photo applications and talk about the dos and the don’ts.
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
When: Tuesday 7 October at 2pm
Where: Kew Library, Phyllis Hore Meeting Room, Cnr Cotham Road & Civic Drive, Kew
Phone: 9278 4666 or book online
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Stop. Write. Now. Hazel Edwards
The fourth in a series of talks presented by the City of Boroondara Library Service
Hazel Edwards: Writing a non-boring history
Hazel will present a session for those contemplating or doing their family histories.
She writes:
“recently, ‘family history’ surpassed stamp-collecting as the favourite hobby internationally. Many family historians did not originally set out to write a book. Initially they enjoyed collecting family letters, facts and memorabilia and then became interested in preserving their family’s past in a tangible way. Since most historians are looking for ‘why?’ things happened, there is a personal satisfaction in assembling the answer in a format which others will want to read. To do justice to your intriguing ancestors, in a non-boring way, is a challenge.”
Hazel Edwards is a Melbourne based author who writes books and scripts for children and adults.
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
When: Thursday 30 October at 7.30pm
Where: Hawthorn Library Meeting Room, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn
Phone: 9278 4666 or book online
Monday, September 15, 2008
Stop. Write. Now. James Phelan - Thriller
A series of talks presented by the City of Boroondara Library Service
James Phelan - Thriller
James Phelan was born in Melbourne. As a teenager he discovered a love of thrillers, of being entertained and informed on topical global events. James cites influences from reading such authors as Alistair MacLean, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Archer, Ken Follett, Tom Clancy, Jack Higgins, Robert Ludlum, John LeCarre, and Jeffery Deaver.
In 1995 James started his first novel for his VCE English assignment. A thriller involving a terrorist attack on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, James eventually abandoned the storyline when Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six was published in 1998. While this storyline died, the lead protagonists of Lachlan Fox and Alister Gammaldi did not, and James went in search of another introductory tale.
Fox Hunt, Phelan's first fiction release, was released in August 2006. The story is set as a bridge between the aftermath of the Cold War and the perilous age of the War on Terrorism, with Lachlan and his best friend thrown unwittingly into a war that crosses time.
Patriot Act, the second instalment in the adventures of Lachlan Fox, was released in August 2007. Set mainly in New York city and France, it tells the story of Lachlan Fox investigating a series of murders in Europe that are linked to a pending hack on the NSA's computers.
The third Lachlan Fox instalment Blood Oil was published in September 2008.
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
When: Wednesday 22 October at 7.30pm
Where: Balwyn Library, 336 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn
Phone: 9278 4666 or book online
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards - Winners announced.
The Prime Minister, the Honourable Kevin Rudd AM has announced the two 2008 winners of the new Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
The Fiction winner is Steven Conte for his novel The zookeeper's war.
"A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war. It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo’s director. As tensions mount in the closing days of the war, nothing, and no one, it seems, can be trusted.
The Zookeeper’s War is a powerful novel of a marriage, and of a city collapsing. It confronts not only the brutality of war but the possibility of heroism. (Fourth Estate)"
The Zookeeper’s War is a powerful novel of a marriage, and of a city collapsing. It confronts not only the brutality of war but the possibility of heroism. (Fourth Estate)"
The Non-fiction winner is Philip Jones for Ochre and rust: artefacts and encounters 
on Australia's frontiers.
"Ochre and Rust takes Aboriginal artefacts from their museum shelves and traces their stories, revealing charged and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia’s frontier history. Philip Jones positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant tales, transporting the reader into the heart of Australia's frontier zone.
Ochre and Rust builds incrementally, resulting in a convincing new insight into our frontier past and the motives of its characters. (Wakefield Press)"
Ochre and Rust builds incrementally, resulting in a convincing new insight into our frontier past and the motives of its characters. (Wakefield Press)"
Click here for more information on the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
Click here to go to the library catalogue
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Stop. Write. Now. David Metzenthen - Children's & Teenage
The second in a series of talks presented by the City of Boroondara Library Service
David Metzenthen - Children's & teenage
David will discuss his personal approach to writing teenage and children fiction. Writing for children might seem easy but David will talk you through getting started, overcoming writer’s block and how to capture the imagination of young readers. Writing for children can be rewarding and full of surprises. David says ‘I guess I try to present stories that could happen in the real world—so when I write I work very hard to create ‘people’ rather than ‘characters’’.
David is an award winning author and has written numerous novels for children and teenagers. He also writes for the Aussie Nibbles, Bites and Chomps series.
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
When: Monday 13 October 7.30pm
Where: Ashburton Library, 154 High Street, Ashburton
Phone: 9278 4666 or book online
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
2008 Man Booker shortlist announced
Last night the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2008 was announced.
The shortlisted novels are:
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole - Australian Author
***
Check the library catalogue here
To read more about the Man Booker prize click here
Monday, September 8, 2008
Stop.Write.Now. Nicola Marsh - Romance
The first in a series of talks presented by the City of Boroondara Library Service
Nicola Marsh - Romance
Nicola will be talking about how to write romance and get published!
The inspiration for her first novel, THE TYCOON'S DATING DEAL, came from a magazine article on speed-dating and she sold this book in May 2003. It won the CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Harlequin Romance 2004.
Nicola currently writes for Harlequin Mills and Boon Romance and Modern Heat/Presents series, has published 17 books and sold over a million copies worldwide.
Nicola loves the hip, vibrant, cosmopolitan vibe of her home city, Melbourne, where she's set the bulk of her novels, highlighting fabulous cultural and food havens like Acland Street (St. Kilda), Brunswick Street (Fitzroy) and Lygon Street (Carlton).
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
When: Wednesday 8 October at 11am
Where: Kew Library, Cnr Cotham Road & Civic Drive, Kew
Phone: 9278 4666 or book online
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Pearls of Wisdom from the Melbourne Writer's Festival ...
By Hannercymraes*
First, a quote:
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease. (Tagore)
The experiences you write about can be quite ordinary. If you write about the ordinary with intensity and feeling it comes alive. (Alice Pung).
Don’t tell the reader a character’s feelings. Give them a way of seeing it, feeling it, hearing it. Arnold Zable, illustrated this by citing an example from a student he was teaching who hated writing.
Zable asked the kid what he did on the weekend.
He said: ‘Surfing.’
‘What was it like,’ Zable asked.
The kid said: ‘Awesome.’
Zabel asked him: ‘What was so awesome about it?’
The kid said: ‘Words can’t describe it.’
After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing, Zable said: ‘Close your eyes. Imagine you are on a surf board. Tell me what you see?’
The kid said: ‘The water is a wall like glass shimmering. (I can’t remember the exact words but it was very poetic).
Zable said: ‘Tell me what you hear?’
‘I hear wind rushing through a tunnel.'
‘Tell me what you feel?’
‘I rise on wings like a bird, flying.’
Zable then asked us. Do I need to tell you how he is feeling?
Tim Winton was asked what story model he used when plotting. He said he does not use any. Which is all very well, if you are a genius but not very useful for a pleb like me.
Robert Muchamore, a children’s writer, was inspired to write by his nephew who could not find anything to read. He said, the nephew still hadn’t read his books.
What did I learn from this? You can't please everyone.
Muchamore personally thanked us, the volunteers, for our assistance. I will be recommending his books heavily in future.
Emily Rodda talked about finding ideas in the ordinary, everyday and how they became fantasy. One such example came from watching a wasp drag a paralysed spider into its mud nest and sealing it inside for its young to eat. The children were delighted to recall an instance in which some of her characters were trapped in a mud cave.
Melina Marchetta said her stories always start with character and grow from there.
Lili Wilkinson said she writes a ‘zero draft,’ a draft that no one gets to see. From that she learns what she wants to write about and builds the ‘first’ draft.
Lili read Trixie Belden books as a child (among other things). She also used to chew her books. She showed us examples of books that had most definitely been munched. Remind me to check if she is one of our library patrons and suspend her membership.
John Marsden writes with the TV on in the background. He read Enid Blyton books as a child (yeah). I admired his honesty. He is a born storyteller. He is also a teacher. He directed one of his comments at some boys who were reading from a newspaper(ouch!).
Margo Lanagan likes an envirnoment free from distractions.
In Kate Mosse’s session I put my hand up and asked my first ever Writing Festival question. I attribute this newfound courage to my job share partner Philippa. She told me you get more out of a conference if you read the latest book of each speaker. I have spent the last week reading Labyrinth and have Sepulchre in my TBR pile.
Mosse’s books have two stories, a historical one and a modern one, intertwined and interlinked, but distinct. I asked if she wrote them separately or wove them together as she wrote.
She explained that she wrote the historical strand first, then the modern one, to keep their voices distinct. Then she went back and put them together, crafting cutting and shaping. Finally she wrote the last ten chapters, tying up all the stands and links.
I was pleased with her answer because it is how I imagined I would tackle it. More important by far was that immediately I asked the question, she looked up into the crowd, beyond the spotlights and asked:
‘Are you a writer?’
I called out: ‘A wannabe.’
She said: ‘Well, that is a good question, a writer’s question, and good luck with your book.’
It was the highlight of the festival for me.
***
* Hannercymraes is a Youth Services Librarian and emerging writer.
First, a quote:
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease. (Tagore)
The experiences you write about can be quite ordinary. If you write about the ordinary with intensity and feeling it comes alive. (Alice Pung).
Don’t tell the reader a character’s feelings. Give them a way of seeing it, feeling it, hearing it. Arnold Zable, illustrated this by citing an example from a student he was teaching who hated writing.
Zable asked the kid what he did on the weekend.
He said: ‘Surfing.’
‘What was it like,’ Zable asked.
The kid said: ‘Awesome.’
Zabel asked him: ‘What was so awesome about it?’
The kid said: ‘Words can’t describe it.’
After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing, Zable said: ‘Close your eyes. Imagine you are on a surf board. Tell me what you see?’
The kid said: ‘The water is a wall like glass shimmering. (I can’t remember the exact words but it was very poetic).
Zable said: ‘Tell me what you hear?’
‘I hear wind rushing through a tunnel.'
‘Tell me what you feel?’
‘I rise on wings like a bird, flying.’
Zable then asked us. Do I need to tell you how he is feeling?
Tim Winton was asked what story model he used when plotting. He said he does not use any. Which is all very well, if you are a genius but not very useful for a pleb like me.
Robert Muchamore, a children’s writer, was inspired to write by his nephew who could not find anything to read. He said, the nephew still hadn’t read his books.
What did I learn from this? You can't please everyone.
Muchamore personally thanked us, the volunteers, for our assistance. I will be recommending his books heavily in future.
Emily Rodda talked about finding ideas in the ordinary, everyday and how they became fantasy. One such example came from watching a wasp drag a paralysed spider into its mud nest and sealing it inside for its young to eat. The children were delighted to recall an instance in which some of her characters were trapped in a mud cave.
Melina Marchetta said her stories always start with character and grow from there.
Lili Wilkinson said she writes a ‘zero draft,’ a draft that no one gets to see. From that she learns what she wants to write about and builds the ‘first’ draft.
Lili read Trixie Belden books as a child (among other things). She also used to chew her books. She showed us examples of books that had most definitely been munched. Remind me to check if she is one of our library patrons and suspend her membership.
John Marsden writes with the TV on in the background. He read Enid Blyton books as a child (yeah). I admired his honesty. He is a born storyteller. He is also a teacher. He directed one of his comments at some boys who were reading from a newspaper(ouch!).
Margo Lanagan likes an envirnoment free from distractions.
In Kate Mosse’s session I put my hand up and asked my first ever Writing Festival question. I attribute this newfound courage to my job share partner Philippa. She told me you get more out of a conference if you read the latest book of each speaker. I have spent the last week reading Labyrinth and have Sepulchre in my TBR pile.
Mosse’s books have two stories, a historical one and a modern one, intertwined and interlinked, but distinct. I asked if she wrote them separately or wove them together as she wrote.
She explained that she wrote the historical strand first, then the modern one, to keep their voices distinct. Then she went back and put them together, crafting cutting and shaping. Finally she wrote the last ten chapters, tying up all the stands and links.
I was pleased with her answer because it is how I imagined I would tackle it. More important by far was that immediately I asked the question, she looked up into the crowd, beyond the spotlights and asked:
‘Are you a writer?’
I called out: ‘A wannabe.’
She said: ‘Well, that is a good question, a writer’s question, and good luck with your book.’
It was the highlight of the festival for me.
***
* Hannercymraes is a Youth Services Librarian and emerging writer.
Diary of a Festival Volunteer
By Hannercymraes*
A few months ago, I put my name down to help at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. I can only say that on the day I sent that fateful email I must have been feeling uncharacteristically energetic. For as my son said when I outlined the scheme to him.
‘But Mum, you find a normal week pretty hard going. Whatever were you thinking?’
My desire to be part of Melbourne’s premier literary event was not, however, as unrealistic as it first appears. There would be no TAFE that week. I had planned to take annual leave for my library work and to give myself over to the festival completely. That was before I found out I was unable to take annual leave.
The problem with my leave was two-fold. Firstly, another of my colleagues had requested leave for that week. Secondly, the remainder of my colleagues were going to the festival as part of their professional development, you know ... getting paid for it.
Then I found out that the festival coincides with the greatly anticipated visit of my brother and his family. Okay, so now I was going to be working and volunteering as well as picking my brother and his family up from the airport at 12:40 am Thursday morning.
I should have probably quit at that stage and, after weeping into my pillow, sent an, I regret to inform you, letter to the festival organisers.
Instead I became stubborn and unrealistic.
‘Look, it is going to be a busy week,’ I said to my family. ‘But I really want to do this.’ All the time I was thinking: I must be a complete and utter muggins.
My husband compounded my inner sense of inner idiocy by saying: ‘I doubt anyone ever goes from being a volunteer to being an author.’
Of course, I wasn't doing it for that reason (well, not only that reason).
‘Why was I doing it?’ That was the question I asked myself as my alarm shrilled early Saturday morning. Of course, once I saw the Red Beret I would be wearing, I added an ‘F word’ to my original sentence.
I have been assigned to BMW Edge a glorious venue in Federation square. After collecting tickets, volunteers are free to attend each session until it finishes. I have spent most of my time perched on the back bench of the BMW Edge looking out over the Yarra and listening. I have also carried the roving microphone around to various students during question time.
On Saturday I went to a reading by Age Book of the Year winners. A highlight was hearing Tim Winton read from his most recent novel, Breath. He read beautifully. Don Watson and Jan Harry were also fantastic. Monday evening, I sat in on a VCE session focussing on the film, Look Both Ways. I had not seen the movie but my son is studying it for VCE. Last night I perused his copy. It was inspiring, especially as I had just heard the writer and actor speak.
This morning I heard Robert Muchamore and Emily Rodda speak. At the end of Robert Muchamore’s session a teacher came up to me with a lone student. He had an email from one of the festival organisers indicating the student would be able to meet Roberts Muchamore. As the festival organizer in question was nowhere to be seen, I took the lad over to where the author was signing. Muchamore’s assistant was happy to arrange a meeting.
As I turned to leave, a petite woman in a pink poncho approached me. She had copy of The Shadow Thief by Alexandra Ardonetto in her hand. She said she could not wait in line because she had to go to the Green Room (the author’s waiting room). She asked could I please get it signed for her. I explained that I was not actually supposed to be standing in the author’s signing queue but promised to see what I could do. ‘Ah, before you go,’ I called out, as she hurried off. ‘Who would you like her to sign it to?’
‘My name is Melina,’ she said. ‘Melina Marchetta.’
My eyes flew open. I know that is a cliché line but I felt it happening. Standing there with my eyes like saucers I whispered: ‘I love your books.’
Thankfully at this stage my Liz-you-are-being-a-loser radar started beeping. I shut up and went in search of Alexandra Ardonetto.
Just in case you have never heard of Alexandra Ardonetto she is a Melbourne girl who signed a three-book-deal when she was only fourteen years of age. Can you imagine how I felt approaching her in my red beret and Crew T Shirt. Asking her to sign a book for Melina Marchetta and hoping she would do it quickly so that I wouldn’t get in trouble for being there, in line, instead of collecting tickets, or picking up rubbish, or directing people to the box office or the toilets.
I felt like an earwig.
Alexandra was sitting next to Alice Pung, author of Unpolished Gem. When I told Alexandra, Melina Marchetta wanted her autograph there was an audible gasp from both girls. Alice turned to Alexandra and said: ‘Oh, Alex, that’s fantastic.'
And it was.
When I took the book to Melina Marchetta in the Green Room, I felt like a fairy Godmother. Even now, as I sit here writing this blog, I find myself grinning stupidly.
I am telling you, now. I will volunteer again next year and count it a privilege.
*****
* Hannercymraes is a Youth Services Librarian and emerging writer.
A few months ago, I put my name down to help at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. I can only say that on the day I sent that fateful email I must have been feeling uncharacteristically energetic. For as my son said when I outlined the scheme to him.
‘But Mum, you find a normal week pretty hard going. Whatever were you thinking?’
My desire to be part of Melbourne’s premier literary event was not, however, as unrealistic as it first appears. There would be no TAFE that week. I had planned to take annual leave for my library work and to give myself over to the festival completely. That was before I found out I was unable to take annual leave.
The problem with my leave was two-fold. Firstly, another of my colleagues had requested leave for that week. Secondly, the remainder of my colleagues were going to the festival as part of their professional development, you know ... getting paid for it.
Then I found out that the festival coincides with the greatly anticipated visit of my brother and his family. Okay, so now I was going to be working and volunteering as well as picking my brother and his family up from the airport at 12:40 am Thursday morning.
I should have probably quit at that stage and, after weeping into my pillow, sent an, I regret to inform you, letter to the festival organisers.
Instead I became stubborn and unrealistic.
‘Look, it is going to be a busy week,’ I said to my family. ‘But I really want to do this.’ All the time I was thinking: I must be a complete and utter muggins.
My husband compounded my inner sense of inner idiocy by saying: ‘I doubt anyone ever goes from being a volunteer to being an author.’
Of course, I wasn't doing it for that reason (well, not only that reason).
‘Why was I doing it?’ That was the question I asked myself as my alarm shrilled early Saturday morning. Of course, once I saw the Red Beret I would be wearing, I added an ‘F word’ to my original sentence.
I have been assigned to BMW Edge a glorious venue in Federation square. After collecting tickets, volunteers are free to attend each session until it finishes. I have spent most of my time perched on the back bench of the BMW Edge looking out over the Yarra and listening. I have also carried the roving microphone around to various students during question time.
On Saturday I went to a reading by Age Book of the Year winners. A highlight was hearing Tim Winton read from his most recent novel, Breath. He read beautifully. Don Watson and Jan Harry were also fantastic. Monday evening, I sat in on a VCE session focussing on the film, Look Both Ways. I had not seen the movie but my son is studying it for VCE. Last night I perused his copy. It was inspiring, especially as I had just heard the writer and actor speak.
This morning I heard Robert Muchamore and Emily Rodda speak. At the end of Robert Muchamore’s session a teacher came up to me with a lone student. He had an email from one of the festival organisers indicating the student would be able to meet Roberts Muchamore. As the festival organizer in question was nowhere to be seen, I took the lad over to where the author was signing. Muchamore’s assistant was happy to arrange a meeting.
As I turned to leave, a petite woman in a pink poncho approached me. She had copy of The Shadow Thief by Alexandra Ardonetto in her hand. She said she could not wait in line because she had to go to the Green Room (the author’s waiting room). She asked could I please get it signed for her. I explained that I was not actually supposed to be standing in the author’s signing queue but promised to see what I could do. ‘Ah, before you go,’ I called out, as she hurried off. ‘Who would you like her to sign it to?’
‘My name is Melina,’ she said. ‘Melina Marchetta.’
My eyes flew open. I know that is a cliché line but I felt it happening. Standing there with my eyes like saucers I whispered: ‘I love your books.’
Thankfully at this stage my Liz-you-are-being-a-loser radar started beeping. I shut up and went in search of Alexandra Ardonetto.
Just in case you have never heard of Alexandra Ardonetto she is a Melbourne girl who signed a three-book-deal when she was only fourteen years of age. Can you imagine how I felt approaching her in my red beret and Crew T Shirt. Asking her to sign a book for Melina Marchetta and hoping she would do it quickly so that I wouldn’t get in trouble for being there, in line, instead of collecting tickets, or picking up rubbish, or directing people to the box office or the toilets.
I felt like an earwig.
Alexandra was sitting next to Alice Pung, author of Unpolished Gem. When I told Alexandra, Melina Marchetta wanted her autograph there was an audible gasp from both girls. Alice turned to Alexandra and said: ‘Oh, Alex, that’s fantastic.'
And it was.
When I took the book to Melina Marchetta in the Green Room, I felt like a fairy Godmother. Even now, as I sit here writing this blog, I find myself grinning stupidly.
I am telling you, now. I will volunteer again next year and count it a privilege.
*****
* Hannercymraes is a Youth Services Librarian and emerging writer.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Award winners announced
The winners of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night.
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Press Release by Lisa Gorton
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
"When the Rain Stops Falling" by Andrew Bovell
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry
The Prize for a First Book of History
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World by Robert Kenny
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
"Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show" by Marcia Langton (Griffith Review)
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt
The Prize for the Best Music Theatre Script
"The Wild Blue" by Anthony Crowley (St. Martins Theatre)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Going Finish by Mandy Maroney
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Head Over Heel by Chris Harrison
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
"Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests" by Richard Flanagan (The Monthly)
Click here for more info about the awards (including the judges' reports)
Click here to go to the Library catalogue
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Press Release by Lisa Gorton
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
"When the Rain Stops Falling" by Andrew Bovell
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry
The Prize for a First Book of History
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World by Robert Kenny
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
"Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show" by Marcia Langton (Griffith Review)
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt
The Prize for the Best Music Theatre Script
"The Wild Blue" by Anthony Crowley (St. Martins Theatre)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Going Finish by Mandy Maroney
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Head Over Heel by Chris Harrison
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
"Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests" by Richard Flanagan (The Monthly)
Click here for more info about the awards (including the judges' reports)
Click here to go to the Library catalogue
Monday, September 1, 2008
Ned Kelly Award winners announced
The 2008 Ned Kelly Awards (which recognise excellence in Australian crime writing) were presented in Melbourne on Friday 29th August, as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
The winners were:
Fiction
Shatter by Michael Robotham
First Novel
The Low Road by Chris Womersley
Non-Fiction
Red Centre, Dead Heart by Evan McHugh
Lifetime Achievement
Marele Day
Click here for more info on the Ned Kelly Awards (including past winners)
Click here to go to the library catalogue
The winners were:
Fiction
Shatter by Michael Robotham
First Novel
The Low Road by Chris Womersley
Non-Fiction
Red Centre, Dead Heart by Evan McHugh
Lifetime Achievement
Marele Day
Click here for more info on the Ned Kelly Awards (including past winners)
Click here to go to the library catalogue
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