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Awards for Melina, Shaun and Emily

judij — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:07:06 +0000

And many others. In the first Australian awards of 2009, Melina Marchetta has taken the Aurealis Award for best young adult novel for Finnikin of the Rock. Shaun Tan, Emily Rodda, Alison Goodman and Sean Williams are on the winners podium also.

The Science Fiction Awards blog tells us that the announcement of winners was made on a Twitter feed. Sign of the times.

Full list of Aurealis winners here.

Aurealis shortlist

judij — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:57:24 +0000

Thirteen categories, 56 titles – that’s the shortlist for the 2008 Aurealis Awards, whittled down from more than 600 entries. Speculative fiction is big.

Several categories are of particular interest to us, although there is something for everyone in all of them.

Best Fantasy Novel

Alison Goodman – The Two Pearls of Wisdom
Sylvia Kelso – Amberlight
Margo Lanagan – Tender Morsels
Juliet Marillier – Heir to Sevenwaters
Karen Miller – The Riven Kingdom

Best Illustrated Book /Graphic Novel

Steve Hunt & David Richardson – The Cloudchasers
Shaun Tan – Tales from Outer Suburbia
Colin Thompson – The Floods Family Files
Julie Watts & Graeme Base – The Art of Graeme Base

Best Young Adult Long Fiction

Isobelle Carmody – The Stone Key
David Cornish – Lamplighter
Alison Goodman – Two Pearls of Wisdom
Melina Marchetta – Finnikin of the Rock
Sean Williams – The Changeling

Best Young Adult Short Fiction

Deborah Biancotti, ‘The Tailor of Time’, Clockwork Phoenix, Norilana Books
Dirk Flinthart, ‘This Is Not My Story’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #37
Trent Jamieson, ‘Cracks’, Shiny, #2
Kevin MacLean, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, Misspelled

Best Children’s Long Fiction

Simon Higgins – Moonshadow (Eye of the Beast)
Sophie Masson – Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts
Emily Rodda – The Wizard of Rondo
Carole Wilkinson – Dragon Dawn
Sean Williams – The Changeling and The Dust Devils (Changeling series)

Best Children’s Illustrated Work/Picture Book

Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble -Tashi and the Phoenix
Richard Harland & Laura Peterson (illustrator) – Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Crown, (The Wolf Kingdom series)
Ian Irvine & David Cornish (illustrator) – Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag (The Sorcerer’s Tower series)
Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Kwaymullina & Adam Hill (illustrator) – Curly and the Fent
Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton (illustrator) – Twisted Tales

The full list can be viewed here on the Aurealis Awards revamped site. Winners will be announced on January 24.

Addendum 21 December. Apologies to Simon Haynes, who has rightly pointed out the following omission:

Best Science Fiction Novel

K A Bedford – Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Marianne de Pierres – Chaos Space (Book Two of the Sentients of Orion)
Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch
Kim Westwood – The Daughters of Moab
Sean Williams – Earth Ascendant (Astropolis Book Two)

Aurealis Awards

judij — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:27:31 +0000

The Aurealis Awards for 2007 were announced on Australia Day. These awards acknowledge the best sci-fi and fantasy titles of the preceding year, with award categories that include fiction for young adults and younger readers.

Best fantasy novel overall was awarded to Lian Hearn’s prequel to her acclaimed Tales of the Otori series, Heaven’s Net is Wide. This title is currently with a reviewer, and we hope to have the review in the first issue of Fiction Focus for 2008.

Best Young Adult Novel went to WA’s Antony Eaton for Skyfall, also out for review. This is the second title in Anthony’s Darklands trilogy.

And although a little young for Fiction Focus, it should be noted that Kate Forsyth’s Chain of Charms series has scooped the pool with Books 2-6 collectively winning the Best Children’s (8-12) Long Fiction Award. These titles are part of the 2008 Primary Focus list and display.