AGENCY NEWS
AGENCY NEWS
March 2007
See Kerry Millard at The Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature, 25th to 26th March 2007. Kerry was interviewed by Hannah Edwards and featured in the Sun Herald newspaper on Sunday 18th March.
Wendy Orr appeared at the Somerset Festival on the Gold Coast from 14 to 16 March, talking to children from grades 3 to 7 about books, writing and being an author. Nim's Island, written by Wendy and illustrated by Kerry Millard, has been green lit for production with Walden Media in the USA. The feature film based on this lovely story will be made during 2007. The book is available through all good book stores and was published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and Random House in the USA. It has also been published in Germany, Spain, Italy and Korea. Wendy's latest book, Mokie and Bik, already available in Australia, will be published in the USA by Henry Holt in June 2007. Contact Golvan Arts Management if you are interested in publishing rights to other territories or film and television rights.
Congratulations to Bob Adamson on receiving the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for 2006 for The Goldfinches of Bagdad. This award, announced in March 2007, is the oldest poetry prize in Australia and is awarded annually for the poet's contribution to Australian poetry. The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Adamson’s first book published in North America, teems with cockatoos, kookaburras, lyrebirds, dollarbirds, and a host of waders from Australia. At once real presences and sly emissaries of the poetic imagination, these birds perform aspects of ourselves just as we assume their weird attributes: “The shadow your hand casts / resembles the mudlark, opening / its wings, calling and rocking, / perched in the pages / of my book.” They transgress human boundaries, ignoring sign posts and political borders. As birds and words exchange places, Adamson charts their migration. Published by Flood Editions in 2006, Adamson toured the USA in March and April of 2006, reading his poems in public libraries, universities and book stores from San Francisco, Chicago, Athens Georgia to Boston and New York. It was launched in Australia by Luke Davies at Gleeboks in Sydney in August 2006.
Congratulations to Kevin Walsh who is a finalist in this year's Savewater Awards in the "Individual Action" category, for his contribution to the education of home gardeners and horticultural professionals on waterwise gardening. Winners will be announced at the Plaza Ballroom Melbourne on 23 March 2007, following World Water Day. Kevin's Waterwise Gardening has recently been reprinted, so contact your local book store to place your order. This book is invaluable for the gardener who wants to accomodate to the drought conditions present throughout most of Australia.
Terri Janke, author of The Butterfly Song appeared on ABC TV on Message Stick at 6.00pm on Monday 5th March. The programme was repeated at 1.30 pm on Sunday 11th March. Terri was interviewed by Miriam Corowa for International Women's Day, a global day of celebrating that connects women around the world. Terri, an author and mother of two who manages a law firm specialising in Indigenous Copyright issues, is an inspiration to all women.
Sydney based artist Bronwyn Bancroft was in Melbourne, 6.00pm to 8.00pm on Friday March 2nd at her exhibition, Deadly which is on at Books Illustrated, Gasworks Arts Park, 15 Graham St, Albert Park, Victoria from 1 March to 30 March 2007.
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk received the 2006 Nobel prize for literature in Stockholm on December 10. Pamuk is in no way connected to Golvan Arts Management, however, our client Gerald Murnane emerged as a contender for the prize, when he was listed by British bookmaker Ladbrokes, as 33/1 to be named the 2006 laureate.
Jack Brown and the Trail of the Pythons, the second novel in the Jack Brown Series by Greg Pyers’, is now available in all good book stores. The first in the series, Jack Brown and the Labyrinth of the Bats, was published by ABC Books in April 2006 and is also available in a 3 CD set narrated by Brendan Higgins who brilliantly captures the mood of intrigue and suspense. See the great reviews of both books in the November edition of Magpies and the December edition of the Friends of the Melbourne Zoos (FOTZ) News. Also good reviews for Jack Brown and the Trail of the Pythons appeared recently in the Ballarat Courier and the Aussiereviews web site. Greg was short listed in the 2005 Australian Children’s Book Council Awards non fiction category and his first novel, Doublecross, was published by ABC books in August 2005.
Fans of Nanushka who are looking for her books should tell their book seller to order LOVE Nanushka and PEACE & FRIENDSHIP Nanushka published by Jane Curry Publishing (distributed by Macmillan). There has been some confusion as Nanushka's earlier editions are out of print and some book sellers don't realise that LOVE Nanushka and PEACE & FRIENDSHIP Nanushka contain poems from the earlier Nanushka Volumes. The new editions are beautifully designed gift books - ideal for Christmas and other special occasions.
See Mark Svendsen’s latest book Circus Carnivore, illustrated by Ben Redlich, which has recently been be published in the USA by Houghton Mifflin. It was published by Lothian Books in Australia in 2005.
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