Tag Archives: prizes

Hello busy lady, what have you been up to? Festivals!

Madness, and much excitement.
In October I am off to the National Young Writers Festival and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, back to back – seven panels.
And the past month has been one of changes and revelations – but more on those in time.
Now, I would like to tell you what I am doing at [...]

Christos Tsiolkas + Nam Le: award winners

In honour of the recent awards won by two authors I admire very much, I thought we could revisit my interviews with them. First of all, which awards were these?
Christos Tsiolkas won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, awarded at the Auckland Writers’ and Readers’ Festival last week, for The Slap. See the full details here. I [...]

Go Nam!

Nam Le has won the $140,000 Dylan Thomas Prize, for a writer under 30. And how well-deserved!
Read all about it from the ABC, or The Oz, or perhaps what we printed in WBN  today (subscription required).
And do revisit my ‘responsive’ interview with Nam.
This is so exciting, when you love a writer’s work - because a prize like this not [...]