Giramondo Sweeping up the Awards [13.11.2009]
I am pleased to announce (and some of you will already know) that in the past week Giramondo authors have won three major literary prizes.
On Wednesday this week Gerald Murnane won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature for a Victorian author who has made an outstanding contribution to Australian Literature. Giramondo has just published his new work of fiction Barley Patch, and also has his wonderful first novel Tamarisk Row and his collection of essays Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs in print.
On the weekend Beverley Farmer won the 2009 Patrick White Award for a writer who has made a substantial contribution to Australian literature. Her most recent book is The Bone House, a literary mosaic composed of myth, poetry, fable and personal observation, published by Giramondo in 2005.
Last week Evelyn Juers' collective biography House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann was joint-winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
In addition poet Robert Gray's memoir The Land I Came Through Last has been shortlisted for the 2009 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. The winner will be announed on 25 November.
If you can't find any of these titles in the bookshop, they can be purchased online, at the Giramondo website, with postage included in the price.
They're all excellent reads!
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