The 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist

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The 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist

8 April 2022

The 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday, and includes the following six titles:

Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami
Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro
A New Name: Septology VI-VII, by Jon Fosse
Tomb of Sand, by Geetanjali Shree
The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk
Cursed Bunny, by Bora Chung

The first thing that grabbed me when looking at the shortlisted titles was the variation in their size. For instance Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven is about 192 pages in length, while The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, weighs in at some 990 pages.

That’s a little bit of reading for those who’d like to familiarise themselves with the six works, before the winner is named on Thursday 26 May 2022.

The 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist

5 April 2022

The 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist was announced today, and sees fifty-eight works of writing, spread across ten categories, vie for prize money worth $285,000:

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction ($40,000)
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
Multicultural NSW Award ($20,000)
Indigenous Writers’ Prize, presented biennially ($30,000)
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000)
Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)
Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)

The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon, TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada, Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen, Coming of Age in the War on Terror by Randa Abdel-Fattah, After Story by Larissa Behrendt, and Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss, are among contenders for the prizes.

Winners will be named on Monday 16 May 2022, being the commencement of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Entries for the 2022 Banjo Prize are open

4 April 2022

The Banjo Prize gives Australian writers the opportunity to have their manuscript published, and entries for the 2022 Banjo Prize are open until Friday 27 May 2022.

Past recipients include journalist Tim Slee, winner of the inaugural prize in 2018 with Taking Tom Murray Home, and Sydney based Dinuka McKenzie in 2020 with The Torrent. The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 6 September 2022.