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AGENCY NEWS
January February 2008
Congratulations to Gerald Murnane on receiving the 2008 Writers' Emeritus Award from The Australia Council for the Arts which was also awarded to Christopher Koch. Gerald also won a Special Prize in the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. A new edition of Tamarisk Row, Gerald's first novel, was published by Giramondo Publishing in February 2008. It will be a launched by Carrie Tiffany at the 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week on Thursday March 6th at 1.15pm to 2.00pm West Tent - Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens. Gerald will appear in the same tent on Wednesday 5th March 3.45pm to 4.30pm In Conversation with John Harns. Gerald’s Velvet Waters will be published by Albert Bonniers Ferlag in Swedish in the Northern Spring of 2008.
The latest news on the Walden Media feature film based on the book Nim's Island, written by Wendy Orr and illustrated by Kerry Millard, starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler can be seen at www.myspace.com/nimsisland. Jodie Foster is playing reclusive author Alex Rover, Abigail Breslin is the feisty Nim and Gerard Butler is Nim's father. Filming took place at the Warner Roadshow studios on the Gold Coast, and on location at Hinchinbrook Island, North Queensland, Australia. Nim at Sea, written by Wendy Orr was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in June. A new edition of Nim's Island, first published in 1999, was also reprinted in June. Nim's Island, is published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and Random House in the USA. It has also been published in Germany, Spain, Italy and Korea. New editions will be published in the UK, France, Brazil, Japan and other countries to coincide with the opening of the Film in April 2008.
A new book on copyright by Colin Golvan, was published by Federation Press in late 2007. Peter Rose, Editor, Australian Book Review said, 'Copyright is rather like poetry in one respect: definitions and true understanding are often nebulous. Anything that demystifies copyright is wholly welcome, and Colin Golvan SC is well equipped to clarify matters. This important new book will be useful for anyone involved in literary or artistic production, as it will be for the legal profession itself.'
Octavius O'Malley and the Mystery of the Missing Mouse, by Alan Sunderland, was published by HarperCollins Australia in September 2007. This is a sequel to Octavius O'Malley and the Mystery of the Exploding Cheese which was published in 2006 and won the 2007 APA (Australian Publishers Association) award for Best Designed Children's Fiction.
The Other Side, by Sally Morgan, was published by the National Museum of Australia Canberra in 2007 as part of its Making Tracks series which has a useful web site with teachers' notes and children's activities. Sally has recently been doing a lot of writing for children and several projects she has undertaken with her children, Ambelin, Blaze and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, are in production and under consideration by publishers.
<Macmillan in Spain have published a series of books by Gordon Reece, about Pepe, a Spanish boy who visits England and introduces young Spanish readers to the English Language.
Congratulations to Kevin Walsh who was a finalist in the 2007 Savewater Awards in the "Individual Action" category, for his contribution to the education of home gardeners and horticultural professionals on waterwise gardening. Kevin's book Waterwise Gardening is invaluable for the gardener who needs to accomodate to the drought conditions present throughout most of Australia.
Butterfly Song, by Terri Janke, first published by Penguin Group Australia in 2005, was reprinted in 2007. French language rights have been sold to Tahitian based publisher Vent des Iles.
Congratulations to Bob Adamson on winning the Age Poetry Book of the Year 2007 and being short-listed in the Victorian Premier's Awards for 2007. Bob won 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 same book was short listed for the NSW Premier’s Poetry Awards 2007. 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 Gleebooks in Sydney in August 2006.
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