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The long-lost 1971 feature film adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright, starring Chips Rafferty in his last role and Jack Thompson in his first, has just screened at Cannes as part of a series called Cannes Classics. We have reissued Read more
Many years ago, acclaimed film director Bruce Beresford bought film rights to Madeleine St John’s delightful novel, The Women in Black.
It’s ABIA time again! And we are very proud to see both The Spare Room and The Lieutenant on the shortlist for Best Literary Fiction Book. Kate Grenville won this category in 2006 for her last novel, The Secret River. Helen Garner has collected a swag of prizes already.
Bernard Beckett’s gripping young adult novel Genesis has been longlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize. Published by Quercus Books in the UK, Genesis is the first of the New Zealand author’s novels to be published overseas.
Geoff Dyer’s latest book, Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi, was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, at the Guardian Hay festival last Friday.
It’s on again! After the great success of the inaugural Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, which unearthed Richard Newsome’s stunning adventure novel The Billionaire’s Curse, entries are now open for the 2009 Prize.
Text congratulates Murray Bail on making the shortlist for the very prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, with his latest novel The Pages. Murray won the 1999 Miles Franklin, and also the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for his previous novel, Eucalyptus.
We are thrilled to announce that Text Publishing will co-publish the agenda-setting quarterly Griffith REVIEW, one of the most highly respected publications of its kind in Australia.
Entries will open on 4 May for this year’s Text Prize. You can download the
and now, and tell your friends about it, but please wait until 4 May before submitting your manuscript.We are very excited to be preparing for the second annual Text Prize.
Dr. James Orbinski has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, for his book An Imperfect Offering.