AGENCY NEWS
AGENCY NEWS
March April 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 was 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.
Wendy Orr is travelling in the USA during March and April 2008 to coincide with the premiere in LA of the Walden feature film based on her book Nim's Island. See www.myspace.com/nimsisland for the latest news on the movie. 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 2007. A new edition of Nim's Island, first published in 1999, was also reprinted in June. Movie tie-in editions of the book have being published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and Random House in the USA in March 2008. 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. Nim's Island will soon be available in translation in Greece, Israel, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Turkey.
Allan Nixon's, latest book The Outbackers, published this year by ABC Books is now available in all good book 
stores.
100% Wolf, by Jayne Lyons, was published by Random House Australia in January 2008 and rights for the USA and Italian markets have already been sold. Freddy Lupin is from a noble family of werewolves. But his first Transwolfation is a disaster when Freddy turns into a yapping poodle instead of a ferocious werewolf. Now his snooty Uncle Hotspur will hate him even more. Just when Freddy thinks life can't get any worse, he's thrown into dog prison. Will he and his new streetwise dog friend, Batty, escape? Who is the sinister man following their every move? Can Freddy prove that he is still 100 percent wolf and save the werwolf pack from disaster? This is a fun story for 8 to 12 year olds that will have boys and girls laughing out loud. Jayne has plans for a Freddy Lupin Series, and the first draft of a sequel to 100% Wolf has already been written. Jayne is currently also working on an adult novel.
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.' For reviews see the Federation Press web site at www.federationpress.
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.
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